Methoden vergleichen

	Kritische Ethnographie	Ethnographie
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	Late 20th century (~1980s–1993 systematisation)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Urheber	Jim Thomas (systematised); rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory (Adorno, Horkheimer) and feminist/postcolonial traditions	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Typ	Qualitative research method	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Wegweisende Quelle	Thomas, J. (1993). Doing Critical Ethnography. Sage Publications.	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Aliasnamen	critical ethnographic research, critical qualitative ethnography, advocacy ethnography, emancipatory ethnography	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Verwandt	6	5
Zusammenfassung	Critical ethnography is a qualitative research approach that combines sustained fieldwork immersion with explicit critical theory to examine how power, inequality, and ideology shape the lived experiences of marginalised communities. Unlike conventional ethnography, which aims to describe a culture as it is, critical ethnography commits the researcher to questioning what is taken for granted and to producing knowledge that can serve as a resource for social change. Rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory and expanded through feminist, postcolonial, and race-critical traditions, it treats the research process itself as a political act.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.