Сравнение на методи

	Интерпретативен феноменологичен анализ	Херменевтичен анализ
Област	Качествени изследвания	Полеви методи
Семейство	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Година на възникване	1999	19th–20th century (Schleiermacher ~1819; Dilthey ~1883; Gadamer 1960; Ricoeur 1969)
Създател	Jonathan A. Smith	Friedrich Schleiermacher; Wilhelm Dilthey; Hans-Georg Gadamer; Paul Ricoeur
Тип	Method	Qualitative interpretive method
Основополагащ източник	Smith, J. A. (1999). Towards a relational self: Social engagement during pregnancy and first-time motherhood. British Journal of Social Psychology, 38(4), 409–426.	Gadamer, H.-G. (1975). Truth and Method (G. Barden & J. Cumming, Trans.). Seabury Press. (Original work published 1960 as Wahrheit und Methode). ISBN: 978-0826400185
Други названия	IPA, Interpretative Phenomenology	hermeneutics, hermeneutical interpretation, interpretive hermeneutics, philosophical hermeneutics
Свързани	3	6
Резюме	Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research methodology that explores how people make sense of significant personal experiences. Developed by Jonathan Smith (1999) and grounded in phenomenology and hermeneutics, IPA examines individual experience in detail before identifying shared patterns; it emphasizes the idiographic (particular) and operates on the principle of double hermeneutics: the researcher interprets participants' interpretations of their lived experience.	Hermeneutic analysis is a qualitative interpretive method for uncovering the meaning of texts, documents, spoken discourse, or human actions. Rooted in 19th-century biblical and legal scholarship and systematised by Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, it operates through the hermeneutic circle: the meaning of a part is understood through the whole, and the meaning of the whole is revised as parts are interpreted. The goal is not to measure or code, but to achieve a deepening, dialogic understanding of the object of interpretation.