Why is another form of grounded theory needed at all? Isn’t this diluting grounded theory instead of enriching it?
I have several responses. First and foremost for me, the Straussian conditional matrix failed to adequately situate the phenomenon of interest. While I wholly endorse its conditionality (the relentless specifying of “under what conditions” does x happen), the specificities of the conditional elements were/are not enough. Situational analysis was developed and the book written to address this fundamental problem in grounded theory, and also to do so poststructurally—acknowledging, and incorporating insights of the postmodern turn. Second, while grounded theory had been used with discursive materials, including using grounded theory to construct the categories for content analysis, this was rare. I seek to promote grounded theory and situational analysis of extant discourses, decentering the knowing subject as relentlessly as conditions have been specified. Third, I have been deeply disturbed by how few grounded theory studies take the situation into account. Many if not most do not ev
