Research questions - plus articles on how to question

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Interview questions

 

1. To what extent is food an important part of your social and family life? Examples?

2. Does what you eat form a part of your identity? If so, how?

3. Do you ever make decisions about what to eat or not eat from a moral or ethical point of view? Examples?

4. How would making radical changes to your eating habits influence your relationships or other aspects of your life?

5. How much emphasis should an individual place on determining what to eat? Does food matter? What should/could you do based on what we are learning?

6. How do food choices relate to other aspects of being part of a community?

7. How do food choices relate to personal and corporate responsibility?

8. If economics were not an issue, would you eat differently than you currently do? In what ways?

9. How has your reading in this class so far affected the way you think about your and/or your family’s relationship to food? Examples?

10. How has reading student blogs affected the way you think about food? Have you had any new insights as a result of reading others' thoughts?

 

 

Created by: allen.webb@wmich.edu 

 

 

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