Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ανακλαστική Θεματική Ανάλυση	Ανάλυση Περιεχομένου	Ανάλυση Λόγου
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτική Έρευνα
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019	Systematised through Krippendorff's methodology work; 4th edition 2018	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Δημιουργός	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke	Klaus Krippendorff (systematic formulation); roots in early 20th-century communications research	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Τύπος	Qualitative research method	Qualitative / mixed-method research technique	Method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.	Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506395661	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis	İçerik Analizi, systematic content coding, quantitative content analysis	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Συναφείς	6	5	2
Σύνοψη	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.	Content analysis is a systematic research technique for reducing text, visual, or media material into coded categories so that patterns can be counted, compared, and interpreted. Formalised by Klaus Krippendorff in his widely cited methodology textbook (latest edition 2018), the method sits at the boundary of qualitative and quantitative inquiry: it imposes structured, replicable coding on inherently meaning-laden material.	Discourse analysis is a qualitative research methodology that examines how language, communication, and power shape meaning, identity, and social reality. Developed across linguistics, sociology, and psychology (particularly by Norman Fairclough and Jonathan Potter), discourse analysis goes beyond content to analyze language use as a social practice that constitutes and reflects power relations, ideologies, and social structures.