Methoden vergleichen

	Embedded Transformative Mixed Methods	Kritische Ethnographie
Fachgebiet	Forschungsdesign	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2003–2010	Late 20th century (~1980s–1993 systematisation)
Urheber	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark (embedded design); Donna M. Mertens (transformative framework)	Jim Thomas (systematised); rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory (Adorno, Horkheimer) and feminist/postcolonial traditions
Typ	Mixed methods research design	Qualitative research method
Wegweisende Quelle	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN: 978-1483344379	Thomas, J. (1993). Doing Critical Ethnography. Sage Publications.
Aliasnamen	transformative embedded design, embedded mixed methods with transformative framework, transformative nested mixed methods	critical ethnographic research, critical qualitative ethnography, advocacy ethnography, emancipatory ethnography
Verwandt	2	6
Zusammenfassung	Embedded transformative mixed methods is a research design that nests one type of data (quantitative or qualitative) inside a dominant dataset of the other type, with both strands guided by an overarching transformative framework — such as feminist, disability rights, or social justice theory. The design serves research questions where statistical breadth and in-depth qualitative insight must both speak directly to equity, empowerment, or systemic change goals.	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.