The situational analysis builds on the Grounded Theory approach, expands it, and opens new perspectives for qualitative research in the social and humanities sciences, professional research, and related fields. Precise mapping methods generate differentiated and complex empirical studies. Interviews, ethnographic, historical, visual, and other discursive data materials are used, including multi-site research. Situational analysis links discourse and action, action and structure, image, text, and the historical dimension of phenomena for in-depth analyses. Situational maps clarify important human, non-human, discursive, and other elements, allowing for the analysis of the relationships between them. Maps of social worlds or arenas illustrate collective actors and the arenas of their engagement.