The social building of trust in the qualitative research. The case of Vega Alta del Segura (Region of Murcia)

Abstract

The localities of Abarán, Blanca and Cieza form an important enclave of agricultural within the global agrifood chains fresh fruits (De Castro et al. 2014; Moraes et al 2012; Pedreño 2014). Historically, this territory has had a weak industrial development, which has reduced the formal labour opportunities, so the working classes have been becoming hyper-flexible labour figures (Capecchi and Pesce, 1984), capable of mobilizing to occupy any available labour niche, mainly agriculture, construction and tourism (Gadea et al. 2014). In short, we are planning to carry out a sociological investigation prioritizing the territorial entrance, in a space where the main characteristic is that the official statistics are insufficient to quantitative approach because the labour relations are characterized by eventuality as and exist informal work. With this territory and his social organization, the option was to propose a qualitative conceptual-inductive methodology that we complemented with a "configurationist" methodology (De la Garza 2018) that allowed us to be more flexible to incorporate subjectivities and others aspects like morality aspects of the organization work process and life. The main technique was the in-depth, I did 42 scripted interview, organized according to five profiles, which combined various ethnographic immersions (one of which was a one-month stay) and permanent observation of daily life. In this article I propose, based on the empirical experience of the research carried out, to discuss the crucial importance of the question of social building of trust in a qualitative research in a local territory.