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	Ερμηνευτική Μελέτη Ενιαίας Περίπτωσης	Ερμηνευτική Μελέτη Περίπτωσης
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1978–1995 (Stake 1978, 1995; Yin 1984)	1978–1995 (Stake's foundational works)
Δημιουργός	Robert E. Stake (intrinsic/interpretive framing); Robert K. Yin (design typology)	Robert E. Stake; extended by Bent Flyvbjerg
Τύπος	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Stake, R. E. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803957671	Stake, R. E. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803957671
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	single-site case study, intrinsic case study, interpretive case research, bounded single-case inquiry	intrinsic case study, constructivist case study, qualitative case study, naturalistic case study
Συναφείς	5	6
Σύνοψη	An interpretive single case study is a qualitative research design that examines one bounded instance — a person, organisation, event, programme, or community — in depth, with the explicit goal of understanding what that case means to the people within it. Drawing on Stake's notion of the intrinsic case and an interpretivist epistemological stance, the approach treats meaning as socially constructed and context-dependent, making rich, contextual understanding its primary output.	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.