Methoden vergleichen

	Vergleichende Oral History	Vergleichende Biographieforschung
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1970s–1990s (oral history discipline; comparative application developed through 1990s)	1970s–1980s
Urheber	Alessandro Portelli, Paul Thompson (oral history tradition); comparative design adapted from cross-cultural qualitative research	Daniel Bertaux; Paul Thompson
Typ	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative comparative research design
Wegweisende Quelle	Portelli, A. (1991). The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791404997	Bertaux, D. (Ed.). (1981). Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803914025
Aliasnamen	comparative oral history, cross-group oral history, comparative oral testimony, multi-site oral history	comparative biography, cross-case biographical analysis, biographical comparative method, comparative life-story research
Verwandt	6	6
Zusammenfassung	Comparative oral history collects and systematically compares first-person spoken testimonies from two or more distinct groups, communities, or historical contexts. The method blends the interpretive depth of oral history — privileging personal memory and narrative — with the analytical logic of comparative design, enabling researchers to identify both shared patterns and meaningful differences across the groups under study.	Comparative biographical research is a qualitative design that gathers in-depth life-story accounts from multiple participants and systematically compares them to identify structural patterns, commonalities, and divergences across individual biographies. Rooted in the sociological life-history tradition, it moves beyond single-case description to generate broader theoretical insights about how social conditions, historical contexts, and personal agency shape individual trajectories.