Methoden vergleichen

	Interpretive Biografieforschung	Interpretative Oral History – Sinnstiftung durch persönliche Zeugnisse
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1989–2002 (interpretive systematisation)	1970s–1990s (interpretive turn in oral history)
Urheber	Norman K. Denzin (interpretive turn); Brian Roberts (biographical research synthesis)	Alessandro Portelli; Donald Ritchie
Typ	Qualitative biographical research design	Qualitative research design
Wegweisende Quelle	Roberts, B. (2002). Biographical Research. Open University Press. ISBN: 978-0335200436	Portelli, A. (1991). The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791406229
Aliasnamen	biographical-interpretive method, hermeneutic biography, interpretive life-story research, IBR	interpretive oral history method, hermeneutic oral history, oral history interpretation, IOH
Verwandt	6	6
Zusammenfassung	Interpretive biographical research is a qualitative design that collects and hermeneutically analyses the life stories of individuals to illuminate how personal biography intersects with social structure and historical context. Drawing on the interpretive tradition of Wilhelm Dilthey and systematised by Norman Denzin and Brian Roberts, it treats a life account not as a factual record but as a constructed, meaning-laden narrative that reveals how people make sense of their own trajectories.	Interpretive oral history is a qualitative research design that collects and analyzes first-person spoken accounts of the past through an explicitly interpretive lens. Rather than treating recorded testimony as a transparent factual record, it foregrounds the meaning-making process — examining how narrators construct, remember, and frame their experiences — drawing on hermeneutic and interpretive traditions to illuminate subjectivity, memory, and historical consciousness.