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Mapping von Übergängen im Lebenslauf. Eine Erkundung der prozessontologischen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Situationsanalyse

Wazinski, Karla ; Wanka, Anna ; Kylén, Maya LU orcid ; Slaug, Björn LU orcid and Schmidt, Steven M. LU orcid (2023) In Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 24(2).
Abstract

In our article we focus on potentials and challenges that arise in the use of situational analysis for reflexive-relational transition research. We discuss how transitions can be mapped as transformation processes in the life course and mapping can function as reflective tool in research projects. We explore mapping transitions not only as static situations, but also in their complex processuality. To do this, we discuss transition and reflexive maps inspired by CLARKE's situational analysis, and thereby the challenge of mapping processes. We start by discussing a mapping strategy inspired by situational analysis for the study of transitions, and proceed with an innovation of maps based on a research project. The aim is to trace the... (More)

In our article we focus on potentials and challenges that arise in the use of situational analysis for reflexive-relational transition research. We discuss how transitions can be mapped as transformation processes in the life course and mapping can function as reflective tool in research projects. We explore mapping transitions not only as static situations, but also in their complex processuality. To do this, we discuss transition and reflexive maps inspired by CLARKE's situational analysis, and thereby the challenge of mapping processes. We start by discussing a mapping strategy inspired by situational analysis for the study of transitions, and proceed with an innovation of maps based on a research project. The aim is to trace the processes of change and to be able to analyze and map the connections between different dimensions and actors in these events. We reflect on various mapping strategies developed in the project to analyze spatial-material and temporal-processual aspects, their potentials, and limitations as well as the research process. Mapping processes remains challenging and important for future research. Combining situational analysis and life course research opens up possibilities for researchers to better conceptualize the processuality of situations and to test different mapping procedures for this purpose.

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Mapping Transitions in the Life Course—An Exploration of Process Ontological Potentials and Limits of Situational Analysis
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practice theories, mapping, reflexivity, relationality, situational analysis, transition research
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Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
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24
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2
article number
29
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The Institute for Qualitative Research and the Center for Digital Systems, Freie Universität Berlin
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1438-5627
DOI
10.17169/fqs-24.2.4088
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Perceived Housing and Life Transitions: Good Ageing-in Place
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German
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Funding Information: Across the Life Course, funded by the Deutsche Funding Information: To exemplify our methodological approach, we draw on data from the interdisciplinary project Perceived Housing and Life Transitions: Good Ageing-in Place (HoT Age) in which we focused on housing and life course transitions. The project is located at a Swedish and a German university and financed by a national funding body. It is a three-year international and inter-disciplinary project in which researchers from the fields and disciplines of gerontology, psychology, sociology, educational sciences, public health, occupational therapy, and of different career stages, from MA student to full professor, work together. Some of the involved researchers could draw on decades of joint collaborations, whereas others came anew to the research team. [11] The funding body is financed by the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, and hence the fields of research they emphasize comprise health, working life, and welfare. The applicants created a project proposal at the intersection of their main areas of research—aging and place—and the funding body's main areas of research—health and welfare. In their previous and longstanding collaborations, some of the involved researchers had developed a concept to grasp the perception of home, a multi-dimensional construct derived and tested in mainly quantitative gerontological research which is used again as a framework for the "HoT Age" project. Perceived housing is a concept to grasp "issues of person-environment experience with relation to the socio-physical home environment" (OSWALD & KASPAR, 2012, p.75) and comprises a four-domain model including the domains of housing satisfaction, usability in the home, meaning of home and housing-related control beliefs (OSWALD et al., 2006). [12] Publisher Copyright: © 2023, Institut für Qualitative Forschung,Internationale Akademie Berlin gGmbH. All rights reserved.
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