Methoden vergleichen

	Vergleichende Autoethnographie	Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1979 (autoethnography); comparative application formalized ~2013	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
Urheber	Hayano (term); developed further by Ellis, Bochner, Chang, Ngunjiri & Hernandez	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
Typ	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
Wegweisende Quelle	Chang, H., Ngunjiri, F. W., & Hernandez, K.-A. C. (2013). Collaborative Autoethnography. Left Coast Press. ISBN: 978-1598745948	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Aliasnamen	collaborative autoethnography, multi-sited autoethnography, cross-cultural autoethnography, CAE	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
Verwandt	6	6
Zusammenfassung	Comparative autoethnography is a qualitative design in which two or more researchers — or research participants — independently produce first-person self-narratives about a shared phenomenon and then systematically compare those accounts to generate broader cultural insight. By juxtaposing lived experiences that differ by context, identity, or setting, the approach moves beyond the single-voice limitations of traditional autoethnography while retaining its hallmark reflexivity and personal depth.	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.