Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn - Softcover

Clarke, Adele E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761930566 ISBN 13: 9780761930563

Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn provides an innovative approach to grounded theory useful in a wide array of qualitative research projects. Extending Anselm Strauss's ecological social worlds/arenas/disc

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Review:

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 Timmermans)

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0761930566
• ISBN 13: 9780761930563
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408