Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Συγκριτική Θεωρία Θεμελίωσης	Συγκριτική Εθνογραφία
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1967 (base); comparative application formalised from the 1980s onward	1987–1995 (systematic comparative ethnography formalized)
Δημιουργός	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (grounded theory base); comparative extension developed by multiple scholars	George E. Marcus (multi-sited formulation); Charles C. Ragin (comparative logic)
Τύπος	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative comparative research design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. Aldine. ISBN: 978-0202302607	Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 95–117.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	cross-site grounded theory, multi-group grounded theory, comparative GT, grounded theory comparative analysis	multi-sited ethnography, cross-site ethnography, comparative field research, comparative participant observation
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Comparative grounded theory applies the systematic inductive logic of grounded theory across two or more distinct groups, settings, or time points. Rather than generating a theory grounded in a single context, it builds theory that explains variation and similarity across contexts, producing conceptually richer and more transferable explanatory frameworks than single-site grounded theory studies.	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.