Methoden vergleichen

	Vergleichende Fallstudie	Vergleichende Ethnographie
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1984 (Yin); 1995 (Stake)	1987–1995 (systematic comparative ethnography formalized)
Urheber	Robert K. Yin; Robert E. Stake	George E. Marcus (multi-sited formulation); Charles C. Ragin (comparative logic)
Typ	Qualitative / mixed research design	Qualitative comparative research design
Wegweisende Quelle	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 95–117.
Aliasnamen	cross-case study, multi-site case study, multiple case study design, comparative case analysis	multi-sited ethnography, cross-site ethnography, comparative field research, comparative participant observation
Verwandt	4	6
Zusammenfassung	Comparative case study is a qualitative research design in which two or more bounded cases are studied in depth and then systematically compared to identify similarities, differences, and patterns across contexts. Rooted in Yin's replication logic and Stake's multiple case framework, it is particularly suited to questions that ask how or why a phenomenon unfolds differently — or similarly — across distinct settings, populations, or time periods.	Comparative ethnography is a qualitative research design that conducts in-depth ethnographic fieldwork across two or more sites, groups, communities, or cultural settings in order to generate systematic comparisons. Rather than describing a single community in isolation, it traces similarities, differences, and interconnections across cases, producing theoretically grounded insights that no single site could yield alone.