Methoden vergleichen

	Longitudinal Oral History	Oral History
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1970s–1990s (formalized as distinct variant)	1948 (modern disciplinary form); broader roots in 19th-century folklore and anthropology
Urheber	Allan Nevins (oral history); longitudinal variant developed across life-course sociology and oral history practice from 1970s–1990s	Allan Nevins (Columbia University Oral History Project, 1948); earlier roots in folk-life and anthropological fieldwork
Typ	Qualitative longitudinal research design	Qualitative research method
Wegweisende Quelle	Thomson, A. (2007). Four paradigm transformations in oral history. The Oral History Review, 34(1), 49–70.	Ritchie, D. A. (2003). Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195176957
Aliasnamen	repeated oral history, serial oral history, life-course oral history, longitudinal life narrative	life history interview, oral testimony, spoken history, oral narrative research
Verwandt	4	6
Zusammenfassung	Longitudinal oral history is a qualitative research design in which the same participants are interviewed repeatedly over an extended period — months or years — using open-ended, narrative-focused conversations. By revisiting participants at multiple points in time, the researcher traces how individuals construct, revise, and reinterpret their personal stories as their lives unfold, capturing not just retrospective accounts but the dynamic, evolving nature of memory and meaning-making.	Oral history is a qualitative research method that collects, preserves, and interprets first-person spoken accounts of past events, experiences, and social processes. By recording in-depth interviews with individuals who witnessed or participated in historical events, oral historians document perspectives that written records often exclude. The method bridges historical scholarship and social science, treating the narrator's memory, subjectivity, and voice as primary evidence rather than as limitations to be corrected.