ABSTRACT
The situational maps the author discussed here are the big news. The other types of maps the social worlds/arenas maps and the positional maps keep the discourses and all the players directly in analytic view. They can be very useful strategies. But there is another major difference between situational analysis and other grounded theories. Grounded theory handles social psychological issues very well across the board. There are a great many researchers from any different disciplines using both Barney's and Strauss's approach to grounded theory in their own ways and doing very high-level and excellent work. Strauss used social world maps else where but not linked to grounded theory. Both Strauss and Glaser refused to take gender or race or any identity politics into account unless they earned their way into the analysis. People do not talk easily about race, gender and other identity issues. This places a greater burden on the researcher to gather pertinent data.
