Adele E Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 182282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adele E Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adele E |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6440-0308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1541 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Social Worlds/Arenas Theory as Organizational Theory
Policy is the tool that can bring some effect to public will, so we will examine policy at both the international and domestic levels. In our aviation context, we have to talk about policy development in terms that everyone can understand, and how we might best proceed toward the specific goal of producing jet fuel in sustainable ways. Since we are discussing the matter of long-term evolution to ideal solutions, we have to consider aviation&s;s t…
Situational Analysis in Practice: Mapping Relationalities Across Disciplines
(Feminist) STS and Autobiography: Early Inspirations, Current Concerns
This contribution first describes early, largely progressive influences on STS and myself, sketching diverse groups concerned with sciences, technologies and especially medicines. I then turn to my own early activist concerns and their later scholarly and other manifestations, situating my feminist women’s health activism and development as an early transdisciplinary STS scholar increasingly nourished transnationally. Last, I reflect on where I n…
Situational analysis as a critical interactionist method
This chapter will provide examples of critical research done using situational analysis (SA). SA, a method for qualitative analysis, is an extension of grounded theory in its constructionist interactionist incarnations. It also draws deeply on feminist theory, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and science and technology studies to generate its critical cartographic capacities. SA can be used with interview and ethnographic mater…
Forum on Making Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations
In this forum, Marilyn Strathern and Jade S. Sasser review Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway's edited volume Making Kin, Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018). Responses from multiple authors featured in the book follow
Imagining Alternative and Better Worlds: Isabel Fletcher Talks with Adele E. Clarke
In this interview, Adele Clarke and Isabel Fletcher discuss the different routes that led Clarke to science and technology studies (STS), the field’s increasing engagement with biomedical topics, and her perspectives on its character today. Clarke describes how women’s health activism and teaching feminist critiques of bioscience/biomedicine led her to participate in academic networks now known as feminist STS and trans-national reproduction stud…
Commentary on Celia Iriart and Emerson Elias Merhy: “Inter-capitalistic disputes, biomedicalization and hegemonic medical model”
“Inter-capitalistic disputes, biomedicalization and hegemonic medical model”Comentarios sobre o texto de Iriart e Merhy: “Disputas inter-capitalistas, biomedicalizacao e modelo medico hegemonico”Comentarios sobre el texto de Iriart y Merhy: “Disputas inter-capitalistas, biomedicalizacion y modelo medico hegemonico”
Situating STS and Thinking Ahead
This essay sketches some of the broader sociopolitical and academic conditions of possibility at the time of the founding of the SKAT Section of the American sociological Association, noting the diversity of concerned groups and the affordances of epistemological diversity. I situate my own development as an early STS scholar, and discuss the growing salience of (post)colonial STS and concerns regarding current STS training and publishing
Situational Analysis
Situational analysis (SA) is an extension of the grounded theory (GT) method of analysis for qualitative research developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in 1967, today the most popular form of interpretive analysis in the social sciences and humanities transnationally. Sociologist Adele Clarke, who studied with Strauss, developed SA by extending GT to include an array of poststructural and other contemporary concerns inspired by the work o…
In Celebration of Virginia Olesen's Uncanny Sociological Eye
Symbolic interactionism dwells deep in the intellectual bones of Ginnie Olesen, manifest in sundry ways across a long and ambitious academic career. Here, we briefly sketch her background and then trace her scholarship featuring her interactionist and feminist contributions in four main areas: professional socialization, women, health and healing studies, qualitative methods/feminist methodologies, and the sociology of emotions/interactionist soc…
Strauss, Anselm L. (1916–1996)
American sociologist Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996) is best known for scholarship in qualitative research methods (grounded theory), medical sociology (chronic illness, dying, trajectories, healthcare organization and policy), sociology of work (articulation work, professions and careers), mesolevel theory (social worlds and arenas, negotiated or processual ordering), social psychology (transformations of identity, awareness contexts), Chicago soc…
Social Worlds
The term “social worlds” is used in the social sciences in two main ways: as a generic reference to a situation or social context or as explicit social worlds/arenas theory within the theoretical tradition of symbolic interactionism, the main focus here
Drugs medical and mystical
Situationsanalyse
Wie die Grounded Theory den postmodern turn anschiebt, und wie sie zugleich hindurch geschoben werden muss
Transposing bodies of knowledge and technique: Animal models at work in reproductive sciences
A prominent feature of biological and biomedical research and therapeutics over the past century is the entanglement of human and other animal bodies in the making and remaking of knowledge, techniques and products. In this paper, we explore how animal models work in two different but interrelated situations: early/mid 20th-century reproductive sciences focused on human biomedicine; and early 21st-century assisted reproduction of endangered anima…
Für mich ist die Darstellung der Komplexität der entscheidende Punkt.“ Zur Begründung der Situationsanalys
Zum Interview: Das nachfolgende Interview wurde zwischen Dezember 2010 und Februar 2011 in Form eines E-Mail-Austausches geführt. Anlass dafür war die im Sommer 2011 anstehende deutschsprachige Veröffentlichung des 2005 erschienenen Buches „Situational Analysis“ von Adele E. Clarke [deutscher Titel: „Situationsanalyse“I. Aufmerksam auf die „Situational Analysis“ wurde ich durch eine – wie sollte es heute anders sein – Recherche im Internet. Die e…
Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U. S.
In Memoriam: Susan Leigh Star (1954-2010)
Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
International audience
Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality
Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia: A Partial Bibliography of Works in English
(2008). Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia: A Partial Bibliography of Works in English. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal: Vol. 2, Special Issue: Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia, pp. 327-334.
Introduction: Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia
This special issue of EASTS examines reproductive technoscience, gender, and the formation of East Asian modernities across the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. We begin our introduction with a brief overview of social science scholarship to date on reproductive topics. We then turn to emergent trends: going to and coming from beyond the West, complicating the issues, and intensive localizing and comparative research. Next, we discuss…
Strauss, Anselm L. (1916–1996)
American sociologist Anselm L. Strauss is best known for his work in qualitative research methods (grounded theory), medical sociology (chronic illness, dying, trajectories, healthcare organization and policy), sociology of work (articulation work, professions and careers), mesolevel theory (social worlds and arenas, negotiated or processual ordering), social psychology (transformations of identity, awareness contexts), Chicago sociology (symboli…
Sex/gender and race/ethnicity in the legacy of Anselm Strauss
During Strauss's formative years as a sociologist, neither sex nor gender, nor for that matter race/ethnicity, was central to the broader American sociological agenda. Social class and mobility were, and Strauss wrote on these issues, both in terms of their social psychological dimensions vis-à-vis transformations of identity (1959) and their situatedness (1971b/2006). Immigration issues were also vivid for American sociology (especially for Chic…
Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization-the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms-became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integration of technoscientific innovations, have been coalesc…
Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality
Situational Analyses: Grounded Theory Mapping After the Postmodern Turn
To better address differences and complexities of social life articulated through the postmodern turn, grounded theory is being regenerated and updated. Based on Strauss's ecological frameworks in his social worlds and arenas theory, I offer situational maps and analyses as innovative supplements to the basic social process analyses characteristic of traditional grounded theory. There are three kinds of analytic maps: maps of situations including…
The Many Faces of RU486: Tales of Situated Knowledges and Technological Contestations
In the highly contentious abortion arena, the new oral abortifacient technology RU486 is one among many actors. This article offers an arena analysis of the heterogeneous constructions of RU486 by various actors, including scientists, pharmaceutical compa nies, medical groups, antiabortion groups, women's health movement groups, and others who have produced situated knowledges. Conceptually, we find not only that the identity of the nonhuman acto…
Making the Pap Smear into the `Right Tool' for the Job: Cervical Cancer Screening in the USA, circa 1940-95
Despite being a rather recalcitrant tool, the "Pap smear" is today the major cancer screening technology in the world. This paper examines how and why hetrogeneous actors chose to advocate the Pap smear as a screen for cervical cancer in the late 1940's, and to tinker both in and far beyond the diagnostic laboratory for over 50 years to make the Pap smear "fit" as a screening and clinical technology. Tinkerings included gendering the division of …
Controversy and the Development of Reproductive Sciences
Under what conditions does an entire line of scientific work become controversial, and with what consequences? Nuclear physics, environmental studies, and sociobiology are familiar examples of controversial sciences. The case examined here is the development of American reproductive sciences over the past century, shaped by four domains of controversy: (1) association with sexuality and reproduction; (2) association with clinical quackery and hot…
Clitoral Conventions and Transgressions: Graphic Representations in Anatomy Texts, c1900-1991
Transposing bodies of knowledge and technique: Animal models at work in reproductive sciences
A prominent feature of biological and biomedical research and therapeutics over the past century is the entanglement of human and other animal bodies in the making and remaking of knowledge, techniques and products. In this paper, we explore how animal models work in two different but interrelated situations: early/mid 20th-century reproductive sciences focused on human biomedicine; and early 21st-century assisted reproduction of endangered anima…
From Simple Technology to Complex Arena: Classification of Pap Smears, 1917-90
This article explores historical constructions of Pap smear classification systems from 1917 to 1990. Using a social worlds/arenas analysis, we examine the perspectives and properties of all the major actors (both human and nonhuman) in the Pap smear arena, including implicated actors. Analytical emphasis is on interpretive struggles among different actors in this arena and centers on the consequences of such conflicts for global classificatory s…
Forum on Making Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations
In this forum, Marilyn Strathern and Jade S. Sasser review Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway's edited volume Making Kin, Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018). Responses from multiple authors featured in the book follow
The Traffic in Cyberanatomies: Sex/Gender/Sexualities in Local and Global Formations
Medical anatomy is one of the key sites of the scientific production, reproduction and maintenance of sex and gender. Our Human Anatomies Project explores the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of difference in genital anatomies, focusing especially on the clitoris. This article focuses on representations of human genitalia in the form of cyberanatomies - video, CD-ROM and internetbased renderings of human bodies. In cyberspace as elsew…
Situational Analysis
Situational analysis (SA) is an extension of the grounded theory (GT) method of analysis for qualitative research developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in 1967, today the most popular form of interpretive analysis in the social sciences and humanities transnationally. Sociologist Adele Clarke, who studied with Strauss, developed SA by extending GT to include an array of poststructural and other contemporary concerns inspired by the work o…
Reflections on the reproductive sciences in agriculture in the UK and US, ca. 1900–2000
(Feminist) STS and Autobiography: Early Inspirations, Current Concerns
This contribution first describes early, largely progressive influences on STS and myself, sketching diverse groups concerned with sciences, technologies and especially medicines. I then turn to my own early activist concerns and their later scholarly and other manifestations, situating my feminist women’s health activism and development as an early transdisciplinary STS scholar increasingly nourished transnationally. Last, I reflect on where I n…
In Memoriam: Susan Leigh Star (1954-2010)
Eloge: Merriley E. Borell, 30 September 1945-27 August 1998
Women's Health: Complexities and Differences
On Coming Home and Intellectual Generosity
Some Scholars' Babies are Other Scholars' Bathwater
The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences
This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right--and, in some cases, the wrong--tools for the job. The articles portray the crafting or accessing of specific materials, techniques, instrum…
The Sexual Politics of Reproduction
Feminist Approaches to Science
Women's Medicine: A Cross-Cultural Study of Indigenous Fertility Regulation
Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. Ronald N. Giere
Symbolic Interactionism in Social Studies of Science
Before the 1930s, questions about the nature of science were usually linked to the development of the sociology of knowledge and to philosophical debates. Many philosophical perspectives were used to frame and argue about the social nature of the sciences, and echoes of these debates can still be heard. The pragmatist philosophers who laid the basis for symbolic interactionism were particularly interested in the nature of scientific inquiry, meth…
Caring and Responsibility: The Crossroads of Holistic Practice and Traditional Medicine
Controversy and the Development of Reproductive Sciences
Under what conditions does an entire line of scientific work become controversial, and with what consequences? Nuclear physics, environmental studies, and sociobiology are familiar examples of controversial sciences. The case examined here is the development of American reproductive sciences over the past century, shaped by four domains of controversy: (1) association with sexuality and reproduction; (2) association with clinical quackery and hot…
The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences
This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right--and, in some cases, the wrong--tools for the job. The articles portray the crafting or accessing of specific materials, techniques, instrum…
Some Scholars' Babies are Other Scholars' Bathwater
The Many Faces of RU486: Tales of Situated Knowledges and Technological Contestations
In the highly contentious abortion arena, the new oral abortifacient technology RU486 is one among many actors. This article offers an arena analysis of the heterogeneous constructions of RU486 by various actors, including scientists, pharmaceutical compa nies, medical groups, antiabortion groups, women's health movement groups, and others who have produced situated knowledges. Conceptually, we find not only that the identity of the nonhuman acto…
Clitoral Conventions and Transgressions: Graphic Representations in Anatomy Texts, c1900-1991
Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916- 1945 (review)
From Simple Technology to Complex Arena: Classification of Pap Smears, 1917-90
This article explores historical constructions of Pap smear classification systems from 1917 to 1990. Using a social worlds/arenas analysis, we examine the perspectives and properties of all the major actors (both human and nonhuman) in the Pap smear arena, including implicated actors. Analytical emphasis is on interpretive struggles among different actors in this arena and centers on the consequences of such conflicts for global classificatory s…
Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and the Problems of Sex
Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been controversial for centuries, and scientists who attempted to turn the study of reproduction into a discipline faced an uphill struggle. Adele Clarke's engrossing story of the search for reproductive knowledge across the twentieth century is colorful and fraught with conflict. Modern scientific study of reproduction, human and animal, began in the United States in an …
Making the Pap Smear into the `Right Tool' for the Job: Cervical Cancer Screening in the USA, circa 1940-95
Despite being a rather recalcitrant tool, the "Pap smear" is today the major cancer screening technology in the world. This paper examines how and why hetrogeneous actors chose to advocate the Pap smear as a screen for cervical cancer in the late 1940's, and to tinker both in and far beyond the diagnostic laboratory for over 50 years to make the Pap smear "fit" as a screening and clinical technology. Tinkerings included gendering the division of …
Women's Health: Complexities and Differences
On Coming Home and Intellectual Generosity
Eloge: Merriley E. Borell, 30 September 1945-27 August 1998
Disciplining Reproduction: "Modernity, American Life Science, and "the Problems of Sex
Society for Medical Anthropology: Revealing Bodies
The Traffic in Cyberanatomies: Sex/Gender/Sexualities in Local and Global Formations
Medical anatomy is one of the key sites of the scientific production, reproduction and maintenance of sex and gender. Our Human Anatomies Project explores the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of difference in genital anatomies, focusing especially on the clitoris. This article focuses on representations of human genitalia in the form of cyberanatomies - video, CD-ROM and internetbased renderings of human bodies. In cyberspace as elsew…
Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives
This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS
IV. The More Things Change the More They (Also) Remain the Same
IV. The more Things Change, the more They [also] Remain the Same
Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization-the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms-became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integration of technoscientific innovations, have been coalesc…
Sociology (38 works) · Political science (24 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Social science (15 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (10 works) · Biology (8 works)