Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn

Adele E. Clarke

SAGE, Mar 23, 2005 - Reference - 365 pages

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.

About the author

Adele E. Clarke, MA, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Sociology and History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. She studied with Anselm Strauss and has used and taught grounded theory since 1980, 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. She also published many papers with Leigh Star. Professor Clarke continues to offer workshops on situational analysis internationally.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn
• Author: Adele E. Clarke
• Editor: Adele E. Clarke
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: SAGE, 2005
• ISBN: 0761930566, 9780761930563
• Length: 365 pages
• Subjects: Reference / Research; Social Science / Methodology; Social Science / Research; Social Science / Sociology / General