Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ιστορική Αρχειακή Έρευνα	Ερμηνευτική Ανάλυση
Πεδίο	Μέθοδοι Πεδίου	Μέθοδοι Πεδίου
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	19th century (formalized ~1820s–1880s)	19th–20th century (Schleiermacher ~1819; Dilthey ~1883; Gadamer 1960; Ricoeur 1969)
Δημιουργός	Historians and archivists; systematised through the professionalization of historical scholarship in the 19th century	Friedrich Schleiermacher; Wilhelm Dilthey; Hans-Georg Gadamer; Paul Ricoeur
Τύπος	Qualitative primary-source research	Qualitative interpretive method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Hill, M. R. (1993). Archival Strategies and Techniques. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0803951853	Gadamer, H.-G. (1975). Truth and Method (G. Barden & J. Cumming, Trans.). Seabury Press. (Original work published 1960 as Wahrheit und Methode). ISBN: 978-0826400185
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	archival research, historical document analysis, archival history, primary source research	hermeneutics, hermeneutical interpretation, interpretive hermeneutics, philosophical hermeneutics
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Historical archival research is a systematic method of investigating the past through the critical examination of primary source documents preserved in archives, libraries, and institutional collections. Researchers locate, access, authenticate, and interpret original records — such as government documents, correspondence, diaries, maps, and institutional files — to reconstruct events, trace processes, and build evidence-based historical arguments. It is foundational to historiography and widely applied across humanities and social science disciplines.	Hermeneutic analysis is a qualitative interpretive method for uncovering the meaning of texts, documents, spoken discourse, or human actions. Rooted in 19th-century biblical and legal scholarship and systematised by Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, it operates through the hermeneutic circle: the meaning of a part is understood through the whole, and the meaning of the whole is revised as parts are interpreted. The goal is not to measure or code, but to achieve a deepening, dialogic understanding of the object of interpretation.