Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Συγκριτική Εθνογραφία	Έρευνα μελέτης περίπτωσης	Θεμελιωμένη Θεωρία
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτική Έρευνα
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1987–1995 (systematic comparative ethnography formalized)	1984 (seminal codification)	1967
Δημιουργός	George E. Marcus (multi-sited formulation); Charles C. Ragin (comparative logic)	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss
Τύπος	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative research design	Method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 95–117.	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	multi-sited ethnography, cross-site ethnography, comparative field research, comparative participant observation	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology	GT, Grounded Theory Approach
Συναφείς	6	5	3
Σύνοψη	Comparative ethnography is a qualitative research design that conducts in-depth ethnographic fieldwork across two or more sites, groups, communities, or cultural settings in order to generate systematic comparisons. Rather than describing a single community in isolation, it traces similarities, differences, and interconnections across cases, producing theoretically grounded insights that no single site could yield alone.	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.	Grounded Theory (GT) is a systematic qualitative research methodology in which theory emerges directly from data through iterative analysis, rather than being imposed before data collection. Developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in 1967, GT prioritizes generating explanatory frameworks grounded in evidence.