Clarke

Question 1

Situational Analysis

Answer 1

Situational analysis – analyze situation of interest through the specification, rerepresentation, and subsequent examination of the most salient elements of in contemporary theories of social worlds and arenas

Turn away from micro, meso, macro and toward poststructural theories that see each part as coconstitutive and produced through relations of entities at all levels of organizational complexity

Question 2

Social Worlds

Answer 2

Clarke

groups of varying sizes that generate a life of their own

Question 3

Social Arenas

Answer 3

larger spaces constituting multiple social worlds

Question 4

Boundary Objects

Answer 4

Entities that exist at junctures where social worlds meet in an arena of mutual concern (i.e. treaties)

Question 5

Implicated Actors/Actants

Answer 5

Actors who are silenced or only discursively present and are constructed by others for other’s purposes

• Useful to analyze power in social worlds/arenas
• Acknowledges those physically present but silenced/ignored/invisible by those in power
• Those not physically present in a given social world but discursively constructed by others within it
• can be applied to non human entities as well