Overview

This editorial analyzes theories of situation and person-situation entwinement in order to ask what a situation is in the actual world. An imagined data-collection session is used to separate an objective situation from the subjective perspectives, focus, and positions of the people within it. The proposed multi-cube visualizes how several observers can experience the same objective situation differently while some of their perspectives still overlap.

Topics covered

• Major theories and assumptions in the debate about persons, situations, and situatedness.

• How both the person and the situation continue to change during a data-collection session.

• The relativity of observation and the need to define objective situation and subjective person-situation entwinement precisely.

Original publication

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