Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ερμηνευτική Μελέτη Ενιαίας Περίπτωσης	Ερμηνευτική Αφηγηματική Έρευνα
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1978–1995 (Stake 1978, 1995; Yin 1984)	1990
Δημιουργός	Robert E. Stake (intrinsic/interpretive framing); Robert K. Yin (design typology)	F. Michael Connelly & D. Jean Clandinin
Τύπος	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research approach
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Stake, R. E. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803957671	Connelly, F. M., & Clandinin, D. J. (1990). Stories of experience and narrative inquiry. Educational Researcher, 19(5), 2–14.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	single-site case study, intrinsic case study, interpretive case research, bounded single-case inquiry	interpretive narrative research, INI, hermeneutic narrative inquiry, narrative interpretation
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 narrative inquiry is a qualitative approach that treats human stories as the primary site of meaning-making and knowledge production. Drawing on Connelly and Clandinin's foundational framework and grounded in hermeneutic philosophy, it uses in-depth narrative interviews, field texts, and relational engagement to understand how individuals construct identity, experience, and sense of the world through the stories they tell and live.