The Qualitative Stage of Building Bayesian Belief Networks in a Focus Group Setting: Decision-Making under Uncertainty among Vietnamese Rice Farmers

Autor/inn/en	Založnik, Maja; Bonsall, Michael B.; Harper, Sarah
Titel	The Qualitative Stage of Building Bayesian Belief Networks in a Focus Group Setting: Decision-Making under Uncertainty among Vietnamese Rice Farmers
Quelle	In: Sociological Methods & Research, 50 (2021) 1, S.75-102 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Založnik, Maja)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-1241
DOI	10.1177/0049124118769094
Schlagwörter	Barriers; Second Languages; Agricultural Occupations; Decision Making; Behavior Theories; Bayesian Statistics; Focus Groups; Social Change; Guidelines; Networks; Participatory Research; Research Methodology; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; Mixed Methods Research; Unions; Older Adults; Visual Aids; Organizations (Groups); Vietnam + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Second language; Zweitsprache; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Sozialer Wandel; Richtlinien; Forschungstätigkeit; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Älterer Erwachsener; Anschauungsmaterial
Abstract	An innovative mixed-methods approach to exploratory focus group design is presented using a case study conducted with smallholder rice farmers in Vietnam. Understanding human decision-making under the uncertainties of a complex and changing social and environmental context requires a flexible yet structured and theoretically grounded approach. Using Bayesian belief networks as the architecture of our model allows the study to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative data, the former gathered at this stage in a participatory focus group setting and the latter to be collected in a subsequent survey. This framework further lends itself well to incorporating systematic behavioral approaches to decision-making analysis using Ajzen's theory of planned behavior framework, a symbiosis that remains underexplored in the literature. The visual nature of the networks makes them easily accessible to participants, and the proposed technical solutions to field implementation are flexible, inexpensive, and shown in practice to mitigate issues of co-moderating discussion across language barriers. The tools and methods described are transparent, reproducible in comparative contexts, and transferable to a range of research topics and questions. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01