Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Συγκριτική Εθνογραφία	Εθνογραφία	Θεμελιωμένη Θεωρία
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτική Έρευνα
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1987–1995 (systematic comparative ethnography formalized)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)	1967
Δημιουργός	George E. Marcus (multi-sited formulation); Charles C. Ragin (comparative logic)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss
Τύπος	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition	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.	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462	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	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research	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.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.	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.