Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ερμηνευτική Ιστορία από Προφορικές Μαρτυρίες	Ερμηνευτική Μελέτη Περίπτωσης
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1970s–1990s (interpretive turn in oral history)	1978–1995 (Stake's foundational works)
Δημιουργός	Alessandro Portelli; Donald Ritchie	Robert E. Stake; extended by Bent Flyvbjerg
Τύπος	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Portelli, A. (1991). The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791406229	Stake, R. E. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803957671
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	interpretive oral history method, hermeneutic oral history, oral history interpretation, IOH	intrinsic case study, constructivist case study, qualitative case study, naturalistic case study
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Interpretive oral history is a qualitative research design that collects and analyzes first-person spoken accounts of the past through an explicitly interpretive lens. Rather than treating recorded testimony as a transparent factual record, it foregrounds the meaning-making process — examining how narrators construct, remember, and frame their experiences — drawing on hermeneutic and interpretive traditions to illuminate subjectivity, memory, and historical consciousness.	Interpretive case study is a qualitative research design in which the researcher selects a bounded real-world case — a person, program, event, organization, or community — and seeks to understand it from the inside, through the meanings participants themselves construct. Unlike explanatory or descriptive case study, the interpretive variant foregrounds the researcher's active role in making sense of complex, context-laden data rather than testing hypotheses or cataloguing facts.