L’attualità del pensiero di Anselm Strauss:una riflessione conclusiva

Journal title SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Author/s Silvia Gherardi
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/3
Language Italian Pages 8 P. 139-146 File size 281 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2023-003010
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Some reflections on the topicality of Anselm Strauss' thought are offered in this short article. The transformative power of Straussian thought influences some contemporary conversations, whether Strauss is quoted, or whether he has become transparent because his teachings have "reincarnated" in other writings. In particular, the Straussian legacy is identified in the ground-ed theory as a disciplined method towards creativity, in the procedural approach of "process studies" and in the trend of "practice-based studies" which study work as a situated practice. This reflection looks at both the elements of continuity of Straussian thought and those of dis-continuity, identifying in the first group the concept of the social world taken up by studies on digitalization and the transition from interaction to intra-action in a posthumanist epistemology.

Keywords: grounded theory; interaction; intra-action; practice-based studies; process studies; social world.

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Silvia Gherardi, L’attualità del pensiero di Anselm Strauss:una riflessione conclusiva in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" 3/2023, pp 139-146, DOI: 10.3280/SES2023-003010