Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Έρευνα μελέτης περίπτωσης	Μη Συμμετοχική Παρατήρηση
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Μεθοδολογία Επισκοπήσεων
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1984 (seminal codification)	Formalized mid-20th century (Gold 1958); practice dates to late 19th-century social surveys
Δημιουργός	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)	Raymond Gold (role typology); earlier roots in social survey movement and Chicago School sociology
Τύπος	Qualitative research design	Qualitative / quantitative observational data collection
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Gold, R. L. (1958). Roles in sociological field observations. Social Forces, 36(3), 217–223.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology	detached observation, systematic observation, structured field observation, external observation
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.	Non-participant observation is a data-collection method in which the researcher observes behavior, interactions, or events in a natural or structured setting without joining or influencing the activity under study. The observer maintains a deliberate distance from participants to minimize their own effect on the phenomena being recorded, producing field notes, behavioral tallies, or recordings that reflect naturally occurring behavior rather than behavior shaped by researcher involvement.