Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Αυτοεθνογραφία	Αφηγηματική Διερεύνηση
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτική Έρευνα
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	Late 20th century (term coined 1979; method consolidated 1990s–2000s)	2000
Δημιουργός	Carolyn Ellis, Arthur Bochner, Norman Denzin (prominent theorists); David Hayano coined the term in 1979	D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly
Τύπος	Qualitative research method	Method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Ellis, C. (2004). The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759100947	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. Jossey-Bass.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	auto-ethnography, AE, personal narrative research, self-ethnography	Narrative Analysis, Narrative Research, Life Story Method
Συναφείς	6	3
Σύνοψη	Autoethnography is a qualitative research method in which the researcher uses systematic self-reflection and personal narrative to examine their own experiences within a cultural, social, or organizational context. By treating the self as both subject and instrument, autoethnography connects individual lived experience to broader cultural patterns, making personal stories analytically and socially significant. It bridges autobiography and ethnography, producing accounts that are simultaneously evocative and scholarly.	Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that treats stories and life narratives as primary data, analyzing how individuals construct meaning and identity through storytelling. Developed by D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly (2000), narrative inquiry examines the narratives people tell about their lives, experiences, and transitions, understanding that people make sense of experience through narrative.