Comparar métodos

	Investigación de historia de vida	Etnografía
Campo	Cualitativa	Cualitativa
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	Early 20th century (Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920); systematised as interview method in the 1990s	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Autor original	William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (sociological tradition); Robert Atkinson (interview method)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Tipo	Qualitative research method	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Fuente seminal	Atkinson, R. (1998). The Life Story Interview. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761904496	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	life history method, life-history interview, biographical research, personal narrative research	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Relacionados	6	5
Resumen	Life history research is a qualitative method that captures the full arc of an individual's life — or a significant portion of it — through extended biographical interviewing and analysis of personal documents. Rooted in early Chicago School sociology, the method treats each life story as a window into broader social, cultural, and historical forces. The researcher and participant co-construct a narrative account that illuminates how personal experience is shaped by, and in turn shapes, wider social structures and processes.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.