Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis

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. Kathy Charmaz was Professor Emerita of Sociology and the former director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. She joined the first cohort of doctoral students at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studied with Anselm Strauss. She wrote in the areas of social psychology, medical sociology, qualitative methods, and grounded theory, and over her career wrote, coauthored, or coedited 14 books, including two award-winning works: Good Days, Bad Days; The Self in Illness and Time, and Constructing Grounded Theory. She received the George Herbert Mead award for lifetime achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, the Leo G. Reeder award for distinguished contributions from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the Lifetime Achievement award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Professor Charmaz also gave workshops on qualitative methods, grounded theory, symbolic interactionism, and scholarly writing around the globe.

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• VOLUME ONE: HISTORY, ESSENTIALS AND DEBATES IN GROUNDED THEORYIntroduction to the Collection - Adele E. Clarke and Kathy CharmazPART ONE: HISTORY OF GROUNDED THEORYGrounded Theory in Historical Perspective - Antony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz An Epistemological AccountThe ′Core Category′ of Grounded Theory - Lillemor R-M. Hallberg Making Constant Comparisons Grounded Theory - Kathy Charmaz Objectivist and Constructivist MethodsPART TWO: ESSENTIALS OF GROUNDED THEORYGrounded Theory Methodology - Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin An OverviewOrthodoxy versus Power - Jane Hood The Defining Traits of Grounded Theory Asking Questions of the Data - Lora Bex Lempert Memo-Writing in the Grounded Theory Tradition Editorial - Jan Morse The Significance of Saturation Naturalistic Inquiry and the Saturation Concept - Glen Bowen A Research NoteAbduction as the Type of Inference That Characterizes the Development of a Grounded Theory - Rudy Richardson and Eric Hans Kramer What Grounded Theory Is Not - Roy Suddaby The Place of the Literature Review in a Grounded Theory Study - Ciaran Dunne Criteria for Evaluation - A Strauss and J Corbin PART THREE: DEBATES IN GROUNDED THEORYGrounded Theory - Adele Clarke Critiques, Debates and Situational AnalysisRediscovering Glaser - Kath Melia ′Emergence′ versus ′Forcing′ - Udo Kelle A Crucial Problem of ′Grounded Theory′ ReconsideredPART FOUR: APPENDICESListing of Websites on Grounded Theory and Situational AnalysisVOLUME TWO: GROUNDED THEORY IN DISCIPLINES AND RESEARCHPART ONE: GROUNDED THEORY IN DIVERSE DISCIPLINESGrounded Theory Method in Management Research - Jacqueline Fendt and Wladimir Sachs Users′ PerspectivesGrounded Theory and Leadership Research - Stephen Kempster and Ken Parry A Critical Realist Perspective Putting the ′Theory′ Back into Grounded Theory - Cathy Urquhart, Hans Lehmann and Michael Myers Guidelines for Grounded Theory Studies in Information SystemsResearch Quality Considerations for Grounded Theory Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology - Mike Weed Grounded Theory in Psychology - Kathy Charmaz and Karen Henwood Critical Realist Grounded Theory - Carolyn Oliver A New Approach for Social Work ResearchPART TWO: GROUNDED THEORY AND ADVANCING INQUIRYGrounded Theory in the 21st Century - Kathy Charmaz Applications for Advancing Social Justice StudiesAdvancing Ethnographic Research through Grounded Theory Practice - Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory Being, Knowing and Doing - Roxanne Bainbridge, Mary Whiteside and Janya McCalman A Phronetic Approach to Constructing Grounded Theory with Aboriginal Australian PartnersPART THREE: FEATURING GROUNDED THEORY STRATEGIES IN EMPIRICAL RESEARCHQuestioning, Resisting, Acquiescing, Balancing - Suellen Miller New Mothers′ Career Re-Entry Strategies Mothering on Crack Cocaine: A Grounded Theory Analysis - Margaret Kearney, Sheigla Murphy & Marsha RosenbaumCentre Stage Diagrams - Sion Williams and John Keady A New Method to Develop Constructivist Grounded TheoryLate-Stage Parkinson′s Disease as a Case Exemplar PART FOUR: GROUNDED THEORY EXEMPLARS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGYResearching the Disabled Identity - Rose Galvin Contextualizing the Identity Transformations Which Accompany the Onset of ImpairmentWhen the Management of Grief Becomes Everyday Life - Sarah Goodrum The Aftermath of MurderThe Temporal Emotion Work of Motherhood - Jennifer Lois Home-Schoolers′ Strategies for Managing Time ShortageHousing Patterns of Homeless People: The Ecology of the Street in the Era of Urban Renewal - Jason Adam Wasserman and Jeffrey Michael Clair VOLUME THREE: GROUNDED THEORY EXEMPLARS ACROSS DISCIPLINESPART ONE: COMMUNICATIONSAttending the News - Vivian Martin A Grounded Theory about a Daily RegimenTranslating and Doing Grounded Theory Methodology: Intercultural Mediation as an Analytic Resource - Massimiliano TarozziPART TWO: EDUCATIONInconsistencies in Everyday Patterns of School Rules - Robert Thornberg Distancing to Self-Protect - Elaine Keane The Perpetuation of Inequality in Higher Education through Socio-Relational Dis/Engagement Re-Weaving a Fragmented Self - Dongxiao Qin and M. Brinton Lykes A Grounded Theory of Self-Understanding among Chinese Women Students in the United States of America PART THREE: ORGANIZATIONS AND ECONOMICSThe Emotional Impact and Behavioral Consequences of Post-Merger and Aquisition Integration - David Ager An Ethnographic Case Study in the Software IndustryConstructing Opportunities for Contribution - Karen Locke and Karen Golden-Biddle Structuring Inter-Textual Coherence and Problematizing in Organizational StudiesGendered Social Indicators and Grounded Theory - Siobhan Austen, Therese Jefferson and Vicki Thein PART FOUR: HEALTH, ILLNESS AND CAREExploring Body Image and Self-Concept of Men with Acquired Spinal Cord Injuries - Ann Popowich Sheldon, Rebecca Renwick and Karen K. Yoshida Holding American Hospitals Accountable - Carolyn Wiener Rhetoric and RealityThe Accidental Mentor - Jane Mills, Karen Francis and Ann Bonner Australian Rural Nurses Developing Supportive Relationships in the WorkplaceHow to do a grounded theory study: a worked example of a study of dental practices - Alexandra Sbaraini, Stacy Carter, R. Wendell Evans & Anthony BlinkhornPART FIVE: RACE AND GENDER STUDIESConsidering the Significance of Ancestry through the Prism of Mixed-Race Identity - Cathy Tashiro Through the Lens of Race - Isis Settles, Jennifer Pratt-Hyatt and Nicole Buchanan Black and White Women′s Perceptions of Womanhood Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in a Batterer Intervention Program - Douglas Schrock and Irene Padavic PART SIX: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIESReframing Norms - Carrie Sanders and Fiona Alice Miller Boundary Maintenance and Partial Accommodations in the Work of Academic Technology TransferWhat′s at Stake? Genetic Information from the Perspective of People with Epilepsy and Their Family Members - Sara Shostak, Dana Zarhin and Ruth Ottman VOLUME FOUR: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS PART ONE: ON SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS METHODFrom Grounded Theory to Situational Analysis: What′s New? Why? How? - Adele Clarke Feminisms, Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis - Adele Clarke Grounded Theorizing Using Situational Analysis - Adele Clarke and Carrie Friese Situating Knowledge - Jennifer Ruth Fosket Situational Analysis - Janet Newbury Centerless Systems and Human Service Practices Using Situational Analysis for Critical Qualitative Research Purposes - Michelle Salazar Perez and Gaile Cannella PART TWO: EXEMPLARS OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS RESEARCHGeneral Situational Analysis Studying up Harm Reduction Policy - Jia-shin Chen The Office as AssemblageMelting Bones - Maral Erol The Social Construction of Post-Menopausal Osteoporosis in TurkeyLeveraging the ′Living Laboratory′ - Martin French and Fiona Alice Miller On the Emergence of the Entrepreneurial Hospital PART TWO: MULTIPLE SITUATIONAL MAPS IN SAME STUDYSituational Analysis as an Avenue for Critical Qualitative Research - Michelle Perez and Gaile Cannella Mapping Post-Katrina New Orleans Counsellors Respond to the DSM-IV-TR - Tom Strong et al PART THREE: SITUATIONAL MAPS FOCUSGoverning Through (In)Security: A Critical Analysis of a Fear-Based Public Health Campaign - Marilou Gagnon, Jean Daniel Jacob and Dave Holmes Mapping the Process - Lyndal Khaw An Exemplar of Using Situational Analysis in a Grounded Theory StudyPART FOUR: SOCIAL WORLDS/ARENAS FOCUSThe Many Faces of RU486 - Adele Clarke and Theresa Montini Tales of Situated Knowledges and Technological Contestations Elaborations of Grounded Theory in Information Research - Ana Vasconcelos et al Arenas/Social Worlds Theory, Discourse and Situational AnalysisPART FIVE: POSITIONAL MAPS FOCUSManaging Medication Management in Assisted Living - Paula Carder A Situational AnalysisRethinking the Disclosure Debates - Rachel Washburn A Situational Analysis of the Multiple Meanings of Human Bio-Monitoring Data Classification Conundrums - Carrie Friese Classifying Chimeras and Enacting Species Preservation