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	قوم‌نگاری تطبیقی	Thematic Analysis
حوزه	کیفی	پژوهش کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1987–1995 (systematic comparative ethnography formalized)	2006
پدیدآور	George E. Marcus (multi-sited formulation); Charles C. Ragin (comparative logic)	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
نوع	Qualitative comparative research design	Method
منبع بنیادین	Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 95–117.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
نام‌های دیگر	multi-sited ethnography, cross-site ethnography, comparative field research, comparative participant observation	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
مرتبط	6	3
خلاصه	Comparative ethnography is a qualitative research design that conducts in-depth ethnographic fieldwork across two or more sites, groups, communities, or cultural settings in order to generate systematic comparisons. Rather than describing a single community in isolation, it traces similarities, differences, and interconnections across cases, producing theoretically grounded insights that no single site could yield alone.	Thematic Analysis (TA) is a qualitative research methodology for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) in qualitative data. Developed systematically by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2006), TA is flexible and accessible, applicable across diverse theoretical frameworks and data types, making it one of the most widely used qualitative methods in psychology, health research, and social sciences.