Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis

Adele E. Clarke is Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Trained by Anselm Strauss, she has been using and teaching grounded theory since 1980. Her primary research areas are historical and contemporary sociology of biomedical sciences and technologies (especially reproductive sciences and contraceptive technologies), biomedicalization studies, qualitative research methodologies, and feminist women's health and technoscience studies. She is the author of Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex' (University of California Press, 1998). She co-edited The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth Century Life Sciences (Princeton University Press, 1992). In women's health, Dr. Clarke co-edited Women's Health: Complexities and Diversities (Ohio State University Press, 1997) and Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Cultural, Feminist and Technoscience Perspectives (Routledge, 1999). She is the co-editor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S.(Duke University Press, 2010) and co-author of Developing Grounded Theory: The Second Generation (Left Coast Press, 2009). She serves as co-editor of BioSocieties: Interdisciplinary Journal for Social Studies of Life Sciences. In 2009 she received the Overall Excellence in Teaching Award from UCSF School of Nursing. Kathy Charmaz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. In the latter position, she leads seminars for faculty to help them complete their research and scholarly writing. She has written, co-authored, or co-edited fourteen books including Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time, which won awards from the Pacific Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. The first edition of Constructing Grounded Theory received a Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association. It has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Portuguese and two more translations are underway. A co-edited four-volume set, Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis, with senior editor, Adele Clarke, just came out as part of the Sage Benchmarks in Social Research series. Another co-edited volume with Antony Bryant, senior editor, The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory, appeared in 2007. Professor Charmaz is a co-author of two multi-authored methodology books, Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis: Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive Inquiry, which Guilford published in 2011, and Developing Grounded Theory: The Second Generation, a 2009 publication with Left Coast Press. She has also published articles and chapters on the experience of chronic illness, the social psychology of suffering, writing for publication as well as numerous papers on

VOLUME ONE: HISTORY, ESSENTIALS AND DEBATES IN GROUNDED THEORY Introduction to the Collection - Adele E. Clarke and Kathy Charmaz PART ONE: HISTORY OF GROUNDED THEORY Grounded Theory in Historical Perspective - Antony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz An Epistemological Account The 'Core Category' of Grounded Theory - Lillemor R-M. Hallberg Making Constant Comparisons Grounded Theory - Kathy Charmaz Objectivist and Constructivist Methods PART TWO: ESSENTIALS OF GROUNDED THEORY Grounded Theory Methodology - Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin An Overview Orthodoxy versus Power - Jane Hood The Defining Traits of Grounded Theory Asking Questions of the Data - Lora Bex Lempert Memo-Writing in the Grounded Theory Tradition Editorial - Jan Morse The Significance of Saturation Naturalistic Inquiry and the Saturation Concept - Glen Bowen A Research Note Abduction as the Type of Inference That Characterizes the Development of a Grounded Theory - Rudy Richardson and Eric Hans Kramer What Grounded Theory Is Not - Roy Suddaby The Place of the Literature Review in a Grounded Theory Study - Ciaran Dunne Criteria for Evaluation - A Strauss and J Corbin PART THREE: DEBATES IN GROUNDED THEORY Grounded Theory - Adele Clarke Critiques, Debates and Situational Analysis Rediscovering Glaser - Kath Melia 'Emergence' versus 'Forcing' - Udo Kelle A Crucial Problem of 'Grounded Theory' Reconsidered PART FOUR: APPENDICES Listing of Websites on Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis VOLUME TWO: GROUNDED THEORY IN DISCIPLINES AND RESEARCH PART ONE: GROUNDED THEORY IN DIVERSE DISCIPLINES Grounded Theory Method in Management Research - Jacqueline Fendt and Wladimir Sachs Users' Perspectives Grounded Theory and Leadership Research - Stephen Kempster and Ken Parry A Critical Realist Perspective Putting the 'Theory' Back into Grounded Theory - Cathy Urquhart, Hans Lehmann and Michael Myers Guidelines for Grounded Theory Studies in Information Systems Research Quality Considerations for Grounded Theory Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology - Mike Weed Grounded Theory in Psychology - Kathy Charmaz and Karen Henwood Critical Realist Grounded Theory - Carolyn Oliver A New Approach for Social Work Research PART TWO: GROUNDED THEORY AND ADVANCING INQUIRY Grounded Theory in the 21st Century - Kathy Charmaz Applications for Advancing Social Justice Studies Advancing Ethnographic Research through Grounded Theory Practice - Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory Being, Knowing and Doing - Roxanne Bainbridge, Mary Whiteside and Janya McCalman A Phronetic Approach to Constructing Grounded Theory with Aboriginal Australian Partners PART THREE: FEATURING GROUNDED THEORY STRATEGIES IN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH Questioning, Resisting, Acquiescing, Balancing - Suellen Miller New Mothers' Career Re-Entry Strategies Mothering on Crack Cocaine: A Grounded Theory Analysis - Margaret Kearney, Sheigla Murphy & Marsha Rosenbaum Centre Stage Diagrams - Sion Williams and John Keady A New Method to Develop Constructivist Grounded Theory Late-Stage Parkinson's Disease as a Case Exemplar PART FOUR: GROUNDED THEORY EXEMPLARS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY Researching the Disabled Identity - Rose Galvin Contextualizing the Identity Transformations Which Accompany the Onset of Impairment When the Management of Grief Becomes Everyday Life - Sarah Goodrum The Aftermath of Murder The Temporal Emotion Work of Motherhood - Jennifer Lois Home-Schoolers' Strategies for Managing Time Shortage Housing Patterns of Homeless People: The Ecology of the Street in the Era of Urban Renewal - Jason Adam Wasserman and Jeffrey Michael Clair VOLUME THREE: GROUNDED THEORY EXEMPLARS ACROSS DISCIPLINES PART ONE: COMMUNICATIONS Attending the News - Vivian Martin A Grounded Theory about a Daily Regimen Translating and Doing Grounded Theory Methodology: Intercultural Mediation as an Analytic Resource - Massimiliano Tarozzi PART TWO: EDUCATION Inconsistencies in Everyday Patterns of School Rules - Robert Thornberg Distancing to Self-Protect - Elaine Keane The Perpetuation of Inequality in Higher Education through Socio-Relational Dis/Engagement Re-Weaving a Fragmented Self - Dongxiao Qin and M. Brinton Lykes A Grounded Theory of Self-Understanding among Chinese Women Students in the United States of America PART THREE: ORGANIZATIONS AND ECONOMICS The Emotional Impact and Behavioral Consequences of Post-Merger and Aquisition Integration - David Ager An Ethnographic Case Study in the Software Industry Constructing Opportunities for Contribution - Karen Locke and Karen Golden-Biddle Structuring Inter-Textual Coherence and Problematizing in Organizational Studies Gendered Social Indicators and Grounded Theory - Siobhan Austen, Therese Jefferson and Vicki Thein PART FOUR: HEALTH, ILLNESS AND CARE Exploring Body Image and Self-Concept of Men with Acquired Spinal Cord Injuries - Ann Popowich Sheldon, Rebecca Renwick and Karen K. Yoshida Holding American Hospitals Accountable - Carolyn Wiener Rhetoric and Reality The Accidental Mentor - Jane Mills, Karen Francis and Ann Bonner Australian Rural Nurses Developing Supportive Relationships in the Workplace How to do a grounded theory study: a worked example of a study of dental practices - Alexandra Sbaraini, Stacy Carter, R. Wendell Evans & Anthony Blinkhorn PART FIVE: RACE AND GENDER STUDIES Considering the Significance of Ancestry through the Prism of Mixed-Race Identity - Cathy Tashiro Through the Lens of Race - Isis Settles, Jennifer Pratt-Hyatt and Nicole Buchanan Black and White Women's Perceptions of Womanhood Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in a Batterer Intervention Program - Douglas Schrock and Irene Padavic PART SIX: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES Reframing Norms - Carrie Sanders and Fiona Alice Miller Boundary Maintenance and Partial Accommodations in the Work of Academic Technology Transfer What's at Stake? Genetic Information from the Perspective of People with Epilepsy and Their Family Members - Sara Shostak, Dana Zarhin and Ruth Ottman VOLUME FOUR: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS PART ONE: ON SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS METHOD From Grounded Theory to Situational Analysis: What's New? Why? How? - Adele Clarke Feminisms, Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis - Adele Clarke Grounded Theorizing Using Situational Analysis - Adele Clarke and Carrie Friese Situating Knowledge - Jennifer Ruth Fosket Situational Analysis - Janet Newbury Centerless Systems and Human Service Practices Using Situational Analysis for Critical Qualitative Research Purposes - Michelle Salazar Perez and Gaile Cannella PART TWO: EXEMPLARS OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS RESEARCH General Situational Analysis Studying up Harm Reduction Policy - Jia-shin Chen The Office as Assemblage Melting Bones - Maral Erol The Social Construction of Post-Menopausal Osteoporosis in Turkey Leveraging the 'Living Laboratory' - Martin French and Fiona Alice Miller On the Emergence of the Entrepreneurial Hospital PART TWO: MULTIPLE SITUATIONAL MAPS IN SAME STUDY Situational Analysis as an Avenue for Critical Qualitative Research - Michelle Perez and Gaile Cannella Mapping Post-Katrina New Orleans Counsellors Respond to the DSM-IV-TR - Tom Strong et al PART THREE: SITUATIONAL MAPS FOCUS Governing Through (In)Security: A Critical Analysis of a Fear-Based Public Health Campaign - Marilou Gagnon, Jean Daniel Jacob and Dave Holmes Mapping the Process - Lyndal Khaw An Exemplar of Using Situational Analysis in a Grounded Theory Study PART FOUR: SOCIAL WORLDS/ARENAS FOCUS The Many Faces of RU486 - Adele Clarke and Theresa Montini Tales of Situated Knowledges and Technological Contestations Elaborations of Grounded Theory in Information Research - Ana Vasconcelos et al Arenas/Social Worlds Theory, Discourse and Situational Analysis PART FIVE: POSITIONAL MAPS FOCUS Managing Medication Management in Assisted Living - Paula Carder A Situational Analysis Rethinking the Disclosure Debates - Rachel Washburn A Situational Analysis of the Multiple Meanings of Human Bio-Monitoring Data Classification Conundrums - Carrie Friese Classifying Chimeras and Enacting Species Preservation