Comparar métodos

	Diario de Investigación	Etnografía
Campo	Metodología de encuestas	Cualitativa
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Autor original	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Tipo	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Fuente seminal	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Relacionados	6	5
Resumen	A research diary is a systematic, dated log maintained by the researcher throughout a study to record methodological decisions, emergent observations, analytical hunches, and reflections on researcher positionality. Unlike a participant diary, it is authored by the researcher and functions simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument.	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.