Archiv für Mai 2023

Adele CLARKE Meets Donna HARAWAY: Relational Maps, Becoming-With-Others and the Relevance of Elements in Situational Analysis

In this paper, I propose Donna HARAWAY’s neo-materialist concept of becoming-with-others as a sensitizing concept for Adele CLARKE’s relational mapping in situational analysis. Through HARAWAY’s perspective, mergings of elements, boundaries, and ways o…

Mapping a Way Into Qualitative Inquiry: Reflections on Learning and Teaching Clarke’s Situational Analysis

In this essay I make a case for Adele CLARKE’s situational analysis as an example of a theory/methods package which can help those approaching qualitative social research from professional fields not traditionally associated with qualitative methods to…

Situational Analysis as a Traveling Concept: Mapping, Coding and the Role of Hermeneutics

Situational analysis mapping is widely appreciated as offering systematical empirical approaches to analyzing relationality. However, the role of grounded theory coding as a technique to analyze sequentially remains somewhat unclear in situational anal…

Pediatric Nurses in Early Childhood Intervention in Germany—Emergence of a New Professional Role: Situational Analysis and Mapping

In this essay, we show how an arena is created and how a new field of work for pediatric nursing emerges from it. The situation of pediatric nurses in early childhood intervention in Germany is presented, considering related social worlds and discourse…

Linking Situational Analysis to Architecture and Urbanism. An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Adele CLARKE, Carrie FRIESE and Rachel WASHBURN further expanded situational analysis (SA) with the publication of „Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn“ (2018) and „Situational Analysis in Practice: Mapping Relationalities…

Personalized HIV Treatment: Bringing Marginalized Patients to the Forefront With Situational Analysis

Since the early 2000s, personalized medicine (PM) has been a much-hyped field of healthcare. HIV treatment optimization tools were one of the first successful examples of PM, and have since their development been used to find tailored and optimized tr…

The Real Story of a Swiss Man Who Set Out to Learn How to Do Research: Ernst Boesch’s Psychology and Relational Hermeneutics

Ernst BOESCH is one of the outstanding psychologists of the 20th and early 21st centuries. His efforts since the 1950s to develop a „symbolic theory of action“ led him to a theory of original cultural psychology. He developed this theory based on his r…

Discursive Construction of Contract Cheating and Degradation of Higher Education: Comments on The Daily Mail Online

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, more attention has been paid to practices of academic integrity in higher education institutions (HEIs). Part of this focus has been on contract cheating, which involves the outsourcing of assessments to third …

Potentially Identifying Variables Reported in 100 Qualitative Health Research Articles: Implications for Data Sharing and Secondary Analysis

There is a growing trend in social science research to share qualitative data in a repository for others to access. However, some researchers are reticent to share qualitative data. One major concern is how to de-identify qualitative data while maintai…

Relational and Dimensional: Heuristic Dimensions in Situational Analysis Using the Example of Care Practices and Their Materiality

The consideration of materiality is an essential component of the social sciences of the 21st century. For empirical social research, this poses methodological challenges, especially concerning non-human actors and their corporeality. Therefore, specif…