Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Έρευνα μελέτης περίπτωσης	Εθνογραφική Έρευνα Μακράς Διάρκειας
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1984 (seminal codification)	1920s (classical origins); refined 1990s–2000s
Δημιουργός	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)	Rooted in classical anthropological fieldwork (Malinowski, 1922); systematised for sociological revisits by Michael Burawoy (2003)
Τύπος	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Burawoy, M. (2003). Revisits: An outline of a theory of reflexive ethnography. American Sociological Review, 68(5), 645–679.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology	extended ethnography, long-term fieldwork, sustained ethnographic study, longitudinal field research
Συναφείς	5	5
Σύνοψη	Case study research is a qualitative research design that investigates a specific phenomenon, individual, group, organisation, or event in depth within its real-world context. Systematised by Robert K. Yin in 1984, it supports single-case and multiple-case designs and draws on multiple data sources — interviews, observation, documents, and artefacts — to build a rich, contextualised account of a bounded unit.	Longitudinal ethnography is a qualitative research design in which a researcher conducts sustained, repeated fieldwork with the same community, organisation, or group across an extended period — months to decades. By returning to the field at multiple time points, the researcher captures how social processes, meanings, and structures evolve, making it the only qualitative method capable of directly observing change and continuity in lived experience.