Situational Analysis: Existential and Interpretative Perspective ^*

Abstract

Existentialist progenitors emphasized the contextual or situational nature of human action and meaning. This paper reviews some of these ideas and then compares how different approaches in sociology have embodied this view: symbolic interaction, dramaturgy, ethnomethodology, the California School of Existential Sociology, grounded theory methodology, and macro existential sociology. These perspectives will be compared to assess their relative emphases on the contextual or situational nature of human action and meaning.

Citation

Melnikov, A. and Johnson, J.M. (2021), "Situational Analysis: Existential and Interpretative Perspective ^* ", Denzin, N.K. and Sarina Chen, S.-L. (Ed.) Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 53), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 135-149. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620210000053009