Compara mètodes

	Estudi longitudinal de casos múltiples	Etnografia longitudinal
Camp	Qualitativa	Qualitativa
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Any d'origen	1980s–2000s (Yin's multiple-case framework c. 1984; longitudinal qualitative elaboration c. 2003)	1920s (classical origins); refined 1990s–2000s
Autor original	Robert K. Yin (multiple case design); Johnny Saldana (longitudinal qualitative methods)	Rooted in classical anthropological fieldwork (Malinowski, 1922); systematised for sociological revisits by Michael Burawoy (2003)
Tipus	Qualitative longitudinal research design	Qualitative research design
Font seminal	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Burawoy, M. (2003). Revisits: An outline of a theory of reflexive ethnography. American Sociological Review, 68(5), 645–679.
Àlies	longitudinal multi-case study, repeated multiple case study, panel case study, multi-site longitudinal case study	extended ethnography, long-term fieldwork, sustained ethnographic study, longitudinal field research
Relacionats	6	5
Resum	Longitudinal multiple case study is a qualitative research design that examines two or more bounded cases through repeated data-collection waves over an extended period. By tracking each case across time and comparing patterns across cases, researchers can document how phenomena change, stabilise, or diverge — generating both depth within each site and breadth across sites that neither a single case nor a one-shot survey can provide.	Longitudinal ethnography is a qualitative research design in which a researcher conducts sustained, repeated fieldwork with the same community, organisation, or group across an extended period — months to decades. By returning to the field at multiple time points, the researcher captures how social processes, meanings, and structures evolve, making it the only qualitative method capable of directly observing change and continuity in lived experience.