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. Carrie Friese (PhD) is associate professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her initial research focused on assisted reproductive technologies for humans and endangered species, including the development of interspecies nuclear transfer (aka cloning) for species preservation in zoos. Her book Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity and the Future of Endangered Animals (NYU Press) appeared in 2013. Friese’s new research project explores animal husbandry and care in scientific knowledge production, including comparisons of care practices and their regulation in the United Kingdom. She has used situational analysis across these research projects and has given talks and taught courses on the method across Europe. Rachel Washburn (PhD) is associate professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She used situational analysis in her doctoral research on the politics of human biomonitoring and has continued to do so in subsequent research on the same topic. Her dissertation, Measuring the Chemicals Within: The Social Terrain of Human Biomonitoring in the United States, was awarded the Anselm Strauss Outstanding Qualitative Dissertation Award in 2009. She has given talks and workshops on situational analysis at universities in the United States and Canada. Her current research examines the politics of mid-20th-century science related to the human health effects of pesticides.

"The book is a milestone in the development of qualitative research. It shows comprehensively and convincingly how pragmatism and post-structuralism can be used to analyze the complexity of our contemporary condition."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue to the Second EditionWhat is Situational Analysis?Overview of the Second EditionPractical DevelopmentsHow to Read and Use this BookAbout the AuthorsPART I • FRAMING AND GROUNDING SITUATIONAL ANALYSISIntroduction to Part IChapter 1 • Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory Mapping After the Interpretive TurnWhat Is Grounded Theory?A Genealogy of Grounded Theory and Situational AnalysisThe Interpretive TurnGrounds for a New MethodSituational Maps and AnalysisReflections and AnticipationsChapter 2 • Methodological Grounds of Situational AnalysisGrounded Theory, Pragmatism, and Interactionism: A Theory/Methods PackageGrounded Theory as Always Already Around the Interpretive TurnGrounded Theory as Recalcitrant Against the Interpretive TurnPushing Grounded Theory Around the Interpretive TurnReflections and AnticipationsChapter 3 • Theoretical Grounds of Situational AnalysisThe ”(Re)Turn to the Social” Across Social TheoryPragmatist Interactionist Origins: From Chicago Ecologies to Social Worlds/ArenasNew Grounds I: Foucault and the Pragmatist Interactionist ProjectNew Grounds II: Taking the Nonhuman Explicitly Into AccountNew Grounds III: Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizomes and AssemblagesAssembling the Theoretical Grounds of Situational AnalysisPART II • DOING SITUATIONAL ANALYSISIntroduction to Part IIChapter 4 • Getting Started: Practical Issues and Project DesignThe Three Kinds of Situational Analysis MapsPractical Issues in Getting StartedDoing Situational Analysis Project DesignIssues in Situational Analysis Project DesignTechnical Tools Supporting Situational AnalysisTurning to AnalysisChapter 5 • Doing Situational and Relational MapsAbstract Situational MapsIntroducing the First Exemplar: Bone’s ProjectSituational Maps of Bone’s ProjectDoing Relational Analyses With Situational MapsRelational Maps of Bone’s ProjectFinal Comments on Situational and Relational MapsChapter 6 • Doing Social Worlds/Arenas MapsWhat Are Social Worlds and Arenas?Why Are Social Worlds and Arenas Analytically Important?Introducing Social Worlds/Arenas MapsSocial Worlds/Arenas Map of Bone’s ProjectDoing Social Worlds/Arenas MapsMemoing Social Worlds/Arenas MapsUsing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps in Your ProjectFinal Comments on Social Worlds/Arenas MapsChapter 7 • Doing Positional MapsAbstract Positional MapsPositional Maps of Bone’s ProjectConstructing Your Own Positional MapsArticulating and Acting Upon Absent PositionsWhy Are Positional Maps So Important?Final Comments on Positional MapsChapter 8 • A Fully Worked Exemplar of Situational AnalysisIntroducing Alonso-Yanez’s ProjectAlonso-Yanez’s Situational MapsAlonso-Yanez’s Relational MapsAlonso-Yanez’s Social Worlds/Arenas MapAlonso-Yanez’s Positional MapsProvisional Conclusions on Alonso-Yanez’s ProjectChapter 9 • Writing It Up: Final Presentations and Project MapsWriting It Up as an Analytic ProcessUsing Your Memos in Finalizing the ProjectTurning Situational Analysis Maps Into Final Project MapsPossibilities for Presenting and Publishing Your SA ProjectTemporary ConclusionsPART III • MAPPING EXTANT DISCOURSE MATERIALSIntroduction to Part IIIChapter 10 • Turning to DiscoursesWhat Is Discourse?Why Analyze Discourses?Turning Up the Volume on “Minor” DiscoursesSingle Site and Multisite ApproachesHow to Design SA Discourse ProjectsTurningsChapter 11 • Mapping Narrative Discourse MaterialsKinds of Extant Narrative Discourse MaterialsDesigning a Narrative Discourse ProjectDoing Situational Maps of Narrative Discourse MaterialsDoing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Narrative Discourse MaterialsDoing Positional Maps of Narrative Discourse MaterialsFinal Comments: Situational Analysis of Narrative Discourse MaterialsChapter 12 • Mapping Visual Discourse MaterialsThe Rise of Visual CulturesDoing Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse MaterialsVisual Discourse Exemplar: Washburn’s Biomonitoring ProjectFinal Comments: Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse MaterialsChapter 13 • Mapping Historical Discourse MaterialsHistoricizing Historical ApproachesDesigning Historical and Historicizing ProjectsHistorical Discourse Analysis Exemplar: Introducing Message’s ProjectDoing Situational Maps of Historical Discourse MaterialsDoing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Historical Discourse MaterialsDoing Positional Maps of Historical Discourse MaterialsFinal Comments: Situational Analysis of Historical Discourse MaterialsEpilogue: Situational Analysis Issues and FAQsComparing Early GT With Constructivist GT and SATips on Learning and Teaching Situational AnalysisDecolonizing and (Post)Colonial Situational AnalysisSA Mapping as Facilitating Engagement and CollaborationFAQs About Situational AnalysisFinal WordsAppendicesAppendix A: Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis WebsitesAppendix B: Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by DisciplineAppendix C: Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by Mapping FocusReferencesIndex