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Chapter 6: Situational and Relational Analysis and Social World Theory 6.1 Introduction Having undertaken coding and thematic analysis of the data as described in Chapter 5 (Methods), the researcher decided to further interrogate and analyse the data. Situational analysis (Clarke, 2005) was the chosen method for this analysis. This chapter is divided into three sections. The first section of the chapter outlines and discusses the researcher’s method of undertaking situational analysis by creating and utilising three situational maps, and then outlines relational analysis using the same three maps. The second section of the chapter discusses Clarke’s (2005) two enabling tools for developing and creating a social world/arena map, based on the previous three situational maps and broader data. This process culminates in the social world/arena map, which is presented in this chapter. The last section discusses the process of developing positional maps and then using all the maps (messy, ordered/working, relational, social world/arena and positional) to examine and interrogate the data using the rhetorical questions suggested by Clarke (2005). 6.2 Situational Analysis: Background Situational analysis is embedded within grounded theory’s fundamental principles of theoretical sensitivity, theoretical sampling, constant comparative methods, coding, memoing and diagramming (Clarke, 2005; Mills, Chapman, Bonner & Francis, 2007). A central difference between the two approaches is that situational analysis takes raw data and creates visual maps (Mills et al., 2007). This facilitates a deeper and richer