Methoden vergleichen

	Fokussierte Ethnografie	Ethnographie	Grounded Theory
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ	Qualitative Forschung
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	Late 1990s–early 2000s (Knoblauch's systematic account, 2005)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)	1967
Urheber	Hubert Knoblauch (theorised and named); antecedents in applied medical and organisational ethnography	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss
Typ	Qualitative research method	Qualitative fieldwork tradition	Method
Wegweisende Quelle	Knoblauch, H. (2005). Focused Ethnography. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 6(3), Art. 44.	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.
Aliasnamen	problem-focused ethnography, short-term ethnography, rapid ethnography, focused field study	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research	GT, Grounded Theory Approach
Verwandt	6	5	3
Zusammenfassung	Focused ethnography is a condensed, problem-centred variant of classical ethnography in which a researcher with prior domain knowledge enters a specific social setting for a bounded period — typically days to weeks rather than months or years — to study one clearly defined issue or practice. Developed as a response to the time and resource constraints of applied research, it is widely used in healthcare, organisational studies, and professional education, where the researcher's existing familiarity with the setting allows rapid, targeted data collection without sacrificing ethnographic depth.	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.	Grounded Theory (GT) is a systematic qualitative research methodology in which theory emerges directly from data through iterative analysis, rather than being imposed before data collection. Developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in 1967, GT prioritizes generating explanatory frameworks grounded in evidence.