পদ্ধতির তুলনা করুন

	একক-কেস স্টাডি	বর্ণনামূলক বিশ্লেষণ
ক্ষেত্র	গুণগত	গুণগত
পরিবার	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
উদ্ভবের বছর	1984 (Yin's seminal protocol); 1995 (Stake's art-of-case-study framework)	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
প্রবর্তক	Robert K. Yin; Robert E. Stake	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
ধরন	Qualitative research method	Qualitative interpretive method
মৌলিক উৎস	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
অপর নাম	single-site case study, holistic single-case design, intrinsic case study, bounded case inquiry	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
সম্পর্কিত	6	6
সারসংক্ষেপ	A single-case study is a qualitative research design that investigates one bounded instance — an organization, program, event, individual, or community — in its real-world context through multiple converging sources of evidence. Developed into a rigorous social-science method chiefly by Robert Yin and Robert Stake, it is especially powerful when the case is unique, extreme, critical, or revelatory, and when the research question begins with 'how' or 'why' rather than 'how many.'	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.