Situational Analysis
Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn
Second Edition
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The Second Edition of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn offers an innovative extension of grounded theory useful in qualitative research projects that draws on interviews, observations, and visual, narrative, and historical discourse materials. To engage the dense complexities of real world situations, Situational Analysis (SA) braids together Strauss's ecological social worlds/arenas theory, Foucault’s discourse analysis, and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomes and assemblages. In SA, the situation itself becomes the fundamental unit of analysis. Using extensive examples, the authors discuss getting started, how to create three kinds of maps emphasizing differences and relationality (situational maps, social world/arena maps, and positional maps), the kinds of analytic work they accomplish, and how to write up the results centered on the distinctive strengths of the method. The book will serve as an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students, as well as professional researchers and consultants from diverse backgrounds pursuing qualitative projects.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Prologue to the Second Edition
- What is Situational Analysis?
- Overview of the Second Edition
- Practical Developments
- How to Read and Use this Book
About the Authors
About the Authors
PART I • FRAMING AND GROUNDING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
PART I • FRAMING AND GROUNDING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
Introduction to Part I
- Chapter 1 • Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory Mapping After the Interpretive Turn
- What Is Grounded Theory?
- A Genealogy of Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis
- The Interpretive Turn
- Grounds for a New Method
- Situational Maps and Analysis
- Reflections and Anticipations
- Chapter 2 • Methodological Grounds of Situational Analysis
- Grounded Theory, Pragmatism, and Interactionism: A Theory/Methods Package
- Grounded Theory as Always Already Around the Interpretive Turn
- Grounded Theory as Recalcitrant Against the Interpretive Turn
- Pushing Grounded Theory Around the Interpretive Turn
- Reflections and Anticipations
- Chapter 3 • Theoretical Grounds of Situational Analysis
- The ”(Re)Turn to the Social” Across Social Theory
- Pragmatist Interactionist Origins: From Chicago Ecologies to Social Worlds/Arenas
- New Grounds I: Foucault and the Pragmatist Interactionist Project
- New Grounds II: Taking the Nonhuman Explicitly Into Account
- New Grounds III: Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizomes and Assemblages
- Assembling the Theoretical Grounds of Situational Analysis
PART II • DOING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
PART II • DOING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
Introduction to Part II
- Chapter 4 • Getting Started: Practical Issues and Project Design
- The Three Kinds of Situational Analysis Maps
- Practical Issues in Getting Started
- Doing Situational Analysis Project Design
- Issues in Situational Analysis Project Design
- Technical Tools Supporting Situational Analysis
- Turning to Analysis
- Chapter 5 • Doing Situational and Relational Maps
- Abstract Situational Maps
- Introducing the First Exemplar: Bone’s Project
- Situational Maps of Bone’s Project
- Doing Relational Analyses With Situational Maps
- Relational Maps of Bone’s Project
- Final Comments on Situational and Relational Maps
- Chapter 6 • Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- What Are Social Worlds and Arenas?
- Why Are Social Worlds and Arenas Analytically Important?
- Introducing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Social Worlds/Arenas Map of Bone’s Project
- Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Memoing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Using Social Worlds/Arenas Maps in Your Project
- Final Comments on Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Chapter 7 • Doing Positional Maps
- Abstract Positional Maps
- Positional Maps of Bone’s Project
- Constructing Your Own Positional Maps
- Articulating and Acting Upon Absent Positions
- Why Are Positional Maps So Important?
- Final Comments on Positional Maps
- Chapter 8 • A Fully Worked Exemplar of Situational Analysis
- Introducing Alonso-Yanez’s Project
- Alonso-Yanez’s Situational Maps
- Alonso-Yanez’s Relational Maps
- Alonso-Yanez’s Social Worlds/Arenas Map
- Alonso-Yanez’s Positional Maps
- Provisional Conclusions on Alonso-Yanez’s Project
- Chapter 9 • Writing It Up: Final Presentations and Project Maps
- Writing It Up as an Analytic Process
- Using Your Memos in Finalizing the Project
- Turning Situational Analysis Maps Into Final Project Maps
- Possibilities for Presenting and Publishing Your SA Project
- Temporary Conclusions
PART III • MAPPING EXTANT DISCOURSE MATERIALS
PART III • MAPPING EXTANT DISCOURSE MATERIALS
Introduction to Part III
- Chapter 10 • Turning to Discourses
- What Is Discourse?
- Why Analyze Discourses?
- Turning Up the Volume on “Minor” Discourses
- Single Site and Multisite Approaches
- How to Design SA Discourse Projects
- Turnings
- Chapter 11 • Mapping Narrative Discourse Materials
- Kinds of Extant Narrative Discourse Materials
- Designing a Narrative Discourse Project
- Doing Situational Maps of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Doing Positional Maps of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Chapter 12 • Mapping Visual Discourse Materials
- The Rise of Visual Cultures
- Doing Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse Materials
- Visual Discourse Exemplar: Washburn’s Biomonitoring Project
- Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse Materials
- Chapter 13 • Mapping Historical Discourse Materials
- Historicizing Historical Approaches
- Designing Historical and Historicizing Projects
- Historical Discourse Analysis Exemplar: Introducing Message’s Project
- Doing Situational Maps of Historical Discourse Materials
- Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Historical Discourse Materials
- Doing Positional Maps of Historical Discourse Materials
- Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Historical Discourse Materials
Epilogue: Situational Analysis Issues and FAQs
- Comparing Early GT With Constructivist GT and SA
- Tips on Learning and Teaching Situational Analysis
- Decolonizing and (Post)Colonial Situational Analysis
- SA Mapping as Facilitating Engagement and Collaboration
- FAQs About Situational Analysis
- Final Words
Appendices
- Appendix A: Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis Websites
- Appendix B: Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by Discipline
- Appendix C: Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by Mapping Focus
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
The Second Edition of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn offers an innovative extension of grounded theory useful in qualitative research projects that draws on interviews, observations, and visual, narrative, and historical discourse materials. To engage the dense complexities of real world situations, Situational Analysis (SA) braids together Strauss's ecological social worlds/arenas theory, Foucault’s discourse analysis, and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomes and assemblages. In SA, the situation itself becomes the fundamental unit of analysis. Using extensive examples, the authors discuss getting started, how to create three kinds of maps emphasizing differences and relationality (situational maps, social world/arena maps, and positional maps), the kinds of analytic work they accomplish, and how to write up the results centered on the distinctive strengths of the method. The book will serve as an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students, as well as professional researchers and consultants from diverse backgrounds pursuing qualitative projects.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Prologue to the Second Edition
- What is Situational Analysis?
- Overview of the Second Edition
- Practical Developments
- How to Read and Use this Book
About the Authors
About the Authors
PART I • FRAMING AND GROUNDING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
PART I • FRAMING AND GROUNDING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
Introduction to Part I
- Chapter 1 • Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory Mapping After the Interpretive Turn
- What Is Grounded Theory?
- A Genealogy of Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis
- The Interpretive Turn
- Grounds for a New Method
- Situational Maps and Analysis
- Reflections and Anticipations
- Chapter 2 • Methodological Grounds of Situational Analysis
- Grounded Theory, Pragmatism, and Interactionism: A Theory/Methods Package
- Grounded Theory as Always Already Around the Interpretive Turn
- Grounded Theory as Recalcitrant Against the Interpretive Turn
- Pushing Grounded Theory Around the Interpretive Turn
- Reflections and Anticipations
- Chapter 3 • Theoretical Grounds of Situational Analysis
- The ”(Re)Turn to the Social” Across Social Theory
- Pragmatist Interactionist Origins: From Chicago Ecologies to Social Worlds/Arenas
- New Grounds I: Foucault and the Pragmatist Interactionist Project
- New Grounds II: Taking the Nonhuman Explicitly Into Account
- New Grounds III: Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizomes and Assemblages
- Assembling the Theoretical Grounds of Situational Analysis
PART II • DOING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
PART II • DOING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
Introduction to Part II
- Chapter 4 • Getting Started: Practical Issues and Project Design
- The Three Kinds of Situational Analysis Maps
- Practical Issues in Getting Started
- Doing Situational Analysis Project Design
- Issues in Situational Analysis Project Design
- Technical Tools Supporting Situational Analysis
- Turning to Analysis
- Chapter 5 • Doing Situational and Relational Maps
- Abstract Situational Maps
- Introducing the First Exemplar: Bone’s Project
- Situational Maps of Bone’s Project
- Doing Relational Analyses With Situational Maps
- Relational Maps of Bone’s Project
- Final Comments on Situational and Relational Maps
- Chapter 6 • Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- What Are Social Worlds and Arenas?
- Why Are Social Worlds and Arenas Analytically Important?
- Introducing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Social Worlds/Arenas Map of Bone’s Project
- Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Memoing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Using Social Worlds/Arenas Maps in Your Project
- Final Comments on Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Chapter 7 • Doing Positional Maps
- Abstract Positional Maps
- Positional Maps of Bone’s Project
- Constructing Your Own Positional Maps
- Articulating and Acting Upon Absent Positions
- Why Are Positional Maps So Important?
- Final Comments on Positional Maps
- Chapter 8 • A Fully Worked Exemplar of Situational Analysis
- Introducing Alonso-Yanez’s Project
- Alonso-Yanez’s Situational Maps
- Alonso-Yanez’s Relational Maps
- Alonso-Yanez’s Social Worlds/Arenas Map
- Alonso-Yanez’s Positional Maps
- Provisional Conclusions on Alonso-Yanez’s Project
- Chapter 9 • Writing It Up: Final Presentations and Project Maps
- Writing It Up as an Analytic Process
- Using Your Memos in Finalizing the Project
- Turning Situational Analysis Maps Into Final Project Maps
- Possibilities for Presenting and Publishing Your SA Project
- Temporary Conclusions
PART III • MAPPING EXTANT DISCOURSE MATERIALS
PART III • MAPPING EXTANT DISCOURSE MATERIALS
Introduction to Part III
- Chapter 10 • Turning to Discourses
- What Is Discourse?
- Why Analyze Discourses?
- Turning Up the Volume on “Minor” Discourses
- Single Site and Multisite Approaches
- How to Design SA Discourse Projects
- Turnings
- Chapter 11 • Mapping Narrative Discourse Materials
- Kinds of Extant Narrative Discourse Materials
- Designing a Narrative Discourse Project
- Doing Situational Maps of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Doing Positional Maps of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Chapter 12 • Mapping Visual Discourse Materials
- The Rise of Visual Cultures
- Doing Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse Materials
- Visual Discourse Exemplar: Washburn’s Biomonitoring Project
- Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse Materials
- Chapter 13 • Mapping Historical Discourse Materials
- Historicizing Historical Approaches
- Designing Historical and Historicizing Projects
- Historical Discourse Analysis Exemplar: Introducing Message’s Project
- Doing Situational Maps of Historical Discourse Materials
- Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Historical Discourse Materials
- Doing Positional Maps of Historical Discourse Materials
- Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Historical Discourse Materials
Epilogue: Situational Analysis Issues and FAQs
- Comparing Early GT With Constructivist GT and SA
- Tips on Learning and Teaching Situational Analysis
- Decolonizing and (Post)Colonial Situational Analysis
- SA Mapping as Facilitating Engagement and Collaboration
- FAQs About Situational Analysis
- Final Words
Appendices
- Appendix A: Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis Websites
- Appendix B: Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by Discipline
- Appendix C: Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by Mapping Focus
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Situational Analysis
Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn
July 2017 | 464 pages | Sage US
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The Second Edition of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn offers an innovative extension of grounded theory useful in qualitative research projects that draws on interviews, observations, and visual, narrative, and historical discourse materials. To engage the dense complexities of real world situations, Situational Analysis (SA) braids together Strauss's ecological social worlds/arenas theory, Foucault’s discourse analysis, and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomes and assemblages. In SA, the situation itself becomes the fundamental unit of analysis. Using extensive examples, the authors discuss getting started, how to create three kinds of maps emphasizing differences and relationality (situational maps, social world/arena maps, and positional maps), the kinds of analytic work they accomplish, and how to write up the results centered on the distinctive strengths of the method. The book will serve as an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students, as well as professional researchers and consultants from diverse backgrounds pursuing qualitative projects.
Table Of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue to the Second Edition
- What is Situational Analysis?
- Overview of the Second Edition
- Practical Developments
- How to Read and Use this Book
- About the Authors
- PART I • FRAMING AND GROUNDING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
- Introduction to Part I
- Chapter 1 • Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory Mapping After the Interpretive Turn
- What Is Grounded Theory?
- A Genealogy of Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis
- The Interpretive Turn
- Grounds for a New Method
- Situational Maps and Analysis
- Reflections and Anticipations
- Chapter 2 • Methodological Grounds of Situational Analysis
- Grounded Theory, Pragmatism, and Interactionism: A Theory/Methods Package
- Grounded Theory as Always Already Around the Interpretive Turn
- Grounded Theory as Recalcitrant Against the Interpretive Turn
- Pushing Grounded Theory Around the Interpretive Turn
- Reflections and Anticipations
- Chapter 3 • Theoretical Grounds of Situational Analysis
- The ”(Re)Turn to the Social” Across Social Theory
- Pragmatist Interactionist Origins: From Chicago Ecologies to Social Worlds/Arenas
- New Grounds I: Foucault and the Pragmatist Interactionist Project
- New Grounds II: Taking the Nonhuman Explicitly Into Account
- New Grounds III: Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizomes and Assemblages
- Assembling the Theoretical Grounds of Situational Analysis
- PART II • DOING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
- Introduction to Part II
- Chapter 4 • Getting Started: Practical Issues and Project Design
- The Three Kinds of Situational Analysis Maps
- Practical Issues in Getting Started
- Doing Situational Analysis Project Design
- Issues in Situational Analysis Project Design
- Technical Tools Supporting Situational Analysis
- Turning to Analysis
- Chapter 5 • Doing Situational and Relational Maps
- Abstract Situational Maps
- Introducing the First Exemplar: Bone’s Project
- Situational Maps of Bone’s Project
- Doing Relational Analyses With Situational Maps
- Relational Maps of Bone’s Project
- Final Comments on Situational and Relational Maps
- Chapter 6 • Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- What Are Social Worlds and Arenas?
- Why Are Social Worlds and Arenas Analytically Important?
- Introducing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Social Worlds/Arenas Map of Bone’s Project
- Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Memoing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Using Social Worlds/Arenas Maps in Your Project
- Final Comments on Social Worlds/Arenas Maps
- Chapter 7 • Doing Positional Maps
- Abstract Positional Maps
- Positional Maps of Bone’s Project
- Constructing Your Own Positional Maps
- Articulating and Acting Upon Absent Positions
- Why Are Positional Maps So Important?
- Final Comments on Positional Maps
- Chapter 8 • A Fully Worked Exemplar of Situational Analysis
- Introducing Alonso-Yanez’s Project
- Alonso-Yanez’s Situational Maps
- Alonso-Yanez’s Relational Maps
- Alonso-Yanez’s Social Worlds/Arenas Map
- Alonso-Yanez’s Positional Maps
- Provisional Conclusions on Alonso-Yanez’s Project
- Chapter 9 • Writing It Up: Final Presentations and Project Maps
- Writing It Up as an Analytic Process
- Using Your Memos in Finalizing the Project
- Turning Situational Analysis Maps Into Final Project Maps
- Possibilities for Presenting and Publishing Your SA Project
- Temporary Conclusions
- PART III • MAPPING EXTANT DISCOURSE MATERIALS
- Introduction to Part III
- Chapter 10 • Turning to Discourses
- What Is Discourse?
- Why Analyze Discourses?
- Turning Up the Volume on “Minor” Discourses
- Single Site and Multisite Approaches
- How to Design SA Discourse Projects
- Turnings
- Chapter 11 • Mapping Narrative Discourse Materials
- Kinds of Extant Narrative Discourse Materials
- Designing a Narrative Discourse Project
- Doing Situational Maps of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Doing Positional Maps of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Narrative Discourse Materials
- Chapter 12 • Mapping Visual Discourse Materials
- The Rise of Visual Cultures
- Doing Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse Materials
- Visual Discourse Exemplar: Washburn’s Biomonitoring Project
- Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Visual Discourse Materials
- Chapter 13 • Mapping Historical Discourse Materials
- Historicizing Historical Approaches
- Designing Historical and Historicizing Projects
- Historical Discourse Analysis Exemplar: Introducing Message’s Project
- Doing Situational Maps of Historical Discourse Materials
- Doing Social Worlds/Arenas Maps of Historical Discourse Materials
- Doing Positional Maps of Historical Discourse Materials
- Final Comments: Situational Analysis of Historical Discourse Materials
- Epilogue: Situational Analysis Issues and FAQs
- Comparing Early GT With Constructivist GT and SA
- Tips on Learning and Teaching Situational Analysis
- Decolonizing and (Post)Colonial Situational Analysis
- SA Mapping as Facilitating Engagement and Collaboration
- FAQs About Situational Analysis
- Final Words
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis Websites
- Appendix B: Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by Discipline
- Appendix C: Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by Mapping Focus
- References
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
“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.”
Rainer Winter, Klagenfurt University, Austria
“This updated text has moved the field further along in its understanding of not just the theoretical underpinning of SA, but the practical steps of how to use it well. Anyone wanting to know how to construct a sound SA research design must read this book.”
Adah Ward Randolph, Ohio University
“Relentlessly empirical and fiercely situated, the second edition is dense, refreshing, and conversational. It invites readers to practice the art of Situational Analysis and extends the reach, relevance, and versatility of the conceptual methodology.”
Nancy D. Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“The new edition captures the substance and the excitement of Situational Analysis and its relation to other developments in social science, provides well-elaborated examples to make the methods concrete, and points to questions of theory that invite career-length exploration.”
Peter Taylor, University of Massachusetts Boston
“Imagine a conceptual methodology textbook that serves as coach, mentor, and cheerleader for Situational Analysis. The second edition supports and facilitates constant reflection while you are researching, analyzing, and writing. It will motivate many fine projects in the years to come.”
Nancy Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute