Situational Analysis as a Traveling Concept: Mapping, Coding and the Role of Hermeneutics
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https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.2.4021Keywords:
situational analysis, pragmatism, hermeneutics, qualitative data analysis procedures, sequential analysis, open codingAbstract
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 analysis method books. In my contribution, I regard situational analysis as a traveling concept rooted in pragmatism and taken up within research landscapes different from its origin. Scrutinizing how situational analysis is practiced in German-speaking social sciences, I find that grounded theory coding is commonly used in addition to mapping. I relate this to existing debates on social scientific hermeneutics. Relations between pragmatism and hermeneutics are clarified and possible implications for data analysis in situational analysis are pointed out.
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