Situational Analysis
Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-0-7619-3056-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to situational analysis of qualitative data. Adele E Clarke personally created the situational analysis approach, no other book currently deals with it. She carefully situates herself and the situational analysis approach vis-a-vis other current approaches to grounded theory (specifically) and to qualitative data analysis (more generally).
Situational analysis is unique in that it both uses and extends grounded theory; it employs established coding and memoing strategies, while extending the method to include three new kinds of maps and analyses of the situation focused upon in one's research. This is also the first publication about using grounded theory with historical, visual, and discursive materials.
Situational analysis is unique in that it both uses and extends grounded theory; it employs established coding and memoing strategies, while extending the method to include three new kinds of maps and analyses of the situation focused upon in one's research. This is also the first publication about using grounded theory with historical, visual, and discursive materials.
Reviews / Votes
Through this book, grounded theory has been thoroughly remodeled. Pulling together diverse traditions in social theory and providing a coherent methodological translation for them, this renovation is both scholarly and practical. The text is as an exemplar for updating and reinterpreting research approaches in light of contemporary philosophical and methodological sensibilities. -- Karen D. Locke A timely and erudite critique of grounded theory, clearly favoring the Straussian line, and none the worse for that. -- Antony Bryant With passion and bravura Situational Analysis maps the structures, discourses, and silences hidden in qualitative research. Adele Clarke offers the best of both worlds: a theoretically grounded methodology and a methodologically useful theory. This book is a must read for every researcher contemplating a study of people doing things together. -- Stefan TimmermansMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-3056-3 (9780761930563)
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Other editions
New editions
Adele E. Clarke | Carrie Friese | Rachel Washburn
Situational Analysis
Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn
Book
10/2017
2nd Edition
SAGE Publications Inc
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Person
Adele E. Clarke was Professor of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She studied with Anselm Strauss and used and taught grounded theory, developing situational analysis as an extension. Her book Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn (SAGE, 2005) won the Cooley Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. The 2nd edition with Carrie Friese and Rachel Washburn appeared in 2018. Clarke's research centered on science, technology, and medicine studies, especially biomedicalization and technologies for women. Her book Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences and the "Problem of Sex" won the Basker Award, Society for Medical Anthropology, and Fleck Award, Society for Social Studies of Science. Clarke received the 2013 Bernal Prize for Outstanding Contributions from the Society for Social Studies of Science and the 2015 Reeder Award for Distinguished Contributions to Medical Sociology.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Regrounding Grounded Theory
1. Pushing and Being Pulled Around the Postmodern Turn
Grounded Theory/Symbolic Interactionism as a Theory/Methods Package
Grounded Theory/Symbolic Interactionism as Always Already Around the Postmodern Turn
Grounded Theory as Recalcitrant Against the Postmodern Turn
Pushing Grounded Theory Around the Postmodern Turn
Reflections and Anticipations
2. From Chicago Ecologies to Situational Analysis
Root Metaphors: From Chicago School Social Ecologies to Social Worlds/Arenas/Discourses
New Roots I: Foucault and the Interactionist Project
New Roots II: Taking the Nonhuman Explicitly Into Account
New Roots III: From Social Worlds/Arenas to Situational Maps and Analysis
Project Design, Data Gathering, and Accountability
Temporary Closures
3. Doing Situational Maps and Analysis
Doing Situational Maps
Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
Doing Positional Maps
Final Products: Project Maps
Provisional Conclusions
4. Turning to Discourse(s)
Introducing Discourse Analysis
Multisite/Multiscape Research
Issues in Situational Analysis of Discourse(s)
Turnings
5. Mapping Narrative Discourses
Designing a Narrative Project
Doing Situational Maps of Narrative Discourse
Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Narrative Discourse
Doing Positional Maps of Narrative Discourse
Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Narrative Discourse
6. Mapping Visual Discourses
Entering Visual Discourse
Doing Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse
Visual Discourse Exemplars: Moore and Clarke's Anatomies
Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse
7. Mapping Historical Discourses
Designing Historical and Historicizing Projects
Doing Situational Maps of Historical Discourse
Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Historical Discourse
Doing Positional Maps of Historical Discourse
Project Map of Historical Discourse
Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Historical Discourse
Epilogue: FAQs and Conversations
References
Index
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Regrounding Grounded Theory
1. Pushing and Being Pulled Around the Postmodern Turn
Grounded Theory/Symbolic Interactionism as a Theory/Methods Package
Grounded Theory/Symbolic Interactionism as Always Already Around the Postmodern Turn
Grounded Theory as Recalcitrant Against the Postmodern Turn
Pushing Grounded Theory Around the Postmodern Turn
Reflections and Anticipations
2. From Chicago Ecologies to Situational Analysis
Root Metaphors: From Chicago School Social Ecologies to Social Worlds/Arenas/Discourses
New Roots I: Foucault and the Interactionist Project
New Roots II: Taking the Nonhuman Explicitly Into Account
New Roots III: From Social Worlds/Arenas to Situational Maps and Analysis
Project Design, Data Gathering, and Accountability
Temporary Closures
3. Doing Situational Maps and Analysis
Doing Situational Maps
Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
Doing Positional Maps
Final Products: Project Maps
Provisional Conclusions
4. Turning to Discourse(s)
Introducing Discourse Analysis
Multisite/Multiscape Research
Issues in Situational Analysis of Discourse(s)
Turnings
5. Mapping Narrative Discourses
Designing a Narrative Project
Doing Situational Maps of Narrative Discourse
Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Narrative Discourse
Doing Positional Maps of Narrative Discourse
Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Narrative Discourse
6. Mapping Visual Discourses
Entering Visual Discourse
Doing Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse
Visual Discourse Exemplars: Moore and Clarke's Anatomies
Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse
7. Mapping Historical Discourses
Designing Historical and Historicizing Projects
Doing Situational Maps of Historical Discourse
Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Historical Discourse
Doing Positional Maps of Historical Discourse
Project Map of Historical Discourse
Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Historical Discourse
Epilogue: FAQs and Conversations
References
Index
About the Author