Citation

Previte J, Pini B, Haslam‐McKenzie F. Sociol. Rural. 2007; 47(2): 135-147.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, European Society for Rural Sociology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-9523.2007.00433.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Traditionally, rural scholarship has been limited in its methodological approach. This has begun to change in recent years as rural researchers have embraced a range of different methodological tools. The aim of this article is to contribute to greater methodological pluralism in rural sociology by introducing readers to a method of research that is rarely engaged in the field, that is, Q methodology. The article describes the defining features of the approach as well as providing examples of its application to argue that it is a method that offers particular opportunities and synergies for rural social science research.