Сравнение на методи

	Критическа феноменология	Критична етнография
Област	Качествени методи	Качествени методи
Семейство	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Година на възникване	Late 20th–early 21st century (fully articulated ~2000s–2010s)	Late 20th century (~1980s–1993 systematisation)
Създател	Lisa Guenther, Gayle Salamon, Alia Al-Saji (among others); draws on Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Frankfurt School critical theory	Jim Thomas (systematised); rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory (Adorno, Horkheimer) and feminist/postcolonial traditions
Тип	Qualitative research approach — interpretive and emancipatory	Qualitative research method
Основополагащ източник	Guenther, L. (2020). Critical phenomenology. In G. Weiss, A. V. Murphy, & G. Salamon (Eds.), 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology (pp. 11–16). Northwestern University Press. ISBN: 978-0810141018	Thomas, J. (1993). Doing Critical Ethnography. Sage Publications.
Други названия	critical-phenomenological inquiry, critical-phenomenological analysis, phenomenology and critical theory, politically engaged phenomenology	critical ethnographic research, critical qualitative ethnography, advocacy ethnography, emancipatory ethnography
Свързани	6	6
Резюме	Critical phenomenology is a qualitative research approach that merges classical phenomenological methods with critical theory to examine how structural forces — race, gender, class, disability, and other axes of power — shape and constrain lived experience. Rather than pursuing neutral description of universal essences, it asks whose experiences are centred, whose are marginalised, and how oppressive social structures are reproduced in the body and in everyday life. It has been consolidated as a distinct field by scholars such as Lisa Guenther, Gayle Salamon, and Alia Al-Saji.	Critical ethnography is a qualitative research approach that combines sustained fieldwork immersion with explicit critical theory to examine how power, inequality, and ideology shape the lived experiences of marginalised communities. Unlike conventional ethnography, which aims to describe a culture as it is, critical ethnography commits the researcher to questioning what is taken for granted and to producing knowledge that can serve as a resource for social change. Rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory and expanded through feminist, postcolonial, and race-critical traditions, it treats the research process itself as a political act.