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The changes promoted in the dairy sector from the industrial restructuring process, which began decades ago, as well as the most recent governance systems and policies of the European Union in the matter, are fully related to the vast abandonment that a large number of dairy farms, both in Spain and Catalonia since years ago. This process is experienced in a special way by those smaller and family-type farms. Therefore, the consequences that this evolution of the sector may have in the medium and long term are not negligible from the perspective of the future of the agricultural world. For this reason, it is of great interest for the social sciences to know the socioeconomic conditions that currently characterize the evolution of dairy farms, as well as the social representations that farmers build on them. These will be the main objectives of the article. We therefore try to analyze the socio-economic conditions of the farms and the way in which they are conceived and valued by farmers, as well as exploring how they face their future. The empirical work has combined a quantitative analysis with a qualitative analysis through focus groups and interviews with dairy farmers. The results suggest the existence of fear of the end of the small family farm, as well as the disappointment of the ranchers in a crisis situation that they are not capable of reversing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Within the social sciences, methodological debates contribute to the understanding of social research. This paper discusses one way of understanding the role of the investigator in relation to the approach and analysis of the object/subject of study. The objective is to question the use of the researcher's metaphor as a craftsman. This image appears in the 1950s in order to explain the creativity required by the research process and qualitative data analysis. However, the artisan's metaphor represents a deductive approximation of the researcher to the subject/object of study. On the contrary, the qualitative analysis is oriented by inductive procedures. The metaphor of the hunter after the prey is then proposed as a resource with a paradigmatic and epistemological consistency that contributes to the understanding and training in the qualitative research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents abstracts and keywords in English for articles published in the issue. The articles include "La investigación cualitativa aplicada al estudio del nacionalismo: el discurso neoespañolista" by Helena Béjar, "Un análisis de contenido dual. Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de Internet como fuente" by Myriam Redondo, and "Política, teoría e historia: el William Morris de E. P. Thompson desde la sociología de los intelectuales" by Alejandro Estrella.

The article presents abstracts and keywords in Spanish for articles published in the issue. The articles include "La investigación cualitativa aplicada al estudio del nacionalismo: el discurso neoespañolista" by Helena Béjar, "Un análisis de contenido dual. Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de Internet como fuente" by Myriam Redondo, and "Política, teoría e historia: el William Morris de E. P. Thompson desde la sociología de los intelectuales" by Alejandro Estrella.