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	پدیدارشناسی تفسیری مبتنی بر موارد متعدد	طراحی مطالعه موردی چندگانه
حوزه	کیفی	کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1990s–2000s (synthesis of traditions)	1980s–1990s (Yin's first edition 1984; Stake's collective case study concept 1995)
پدیدآور	Max van Manen (hermeneutic phenomenology); Robert Yin (multiple-case logic)	Robert K. Yin (systematic replication logic); Robert E. Stake (naturalistic/collective case tradition)
نوع	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
منبع بنیادین	van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791404645	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
نام‌های دیگر	multi-case hermeneutic phenomenology, cross-case hermeneutic phenomenology, interpretive multi-case phenomenology, MCBHP	comparative case study, multi-site case study, collective case study, cross-case analysis
مرتبط	5	6
خلاصه	Multiple case-based hermeneutic phenomenology combines the interpretive depth of van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology with the structured cross-case logic of multiple-case study design. Each case — a bounded individual, group, or site — is analysed for the lived meaning of a shared phenomenon; findings are then compared across cases to reveal both unique contextual textures and common hermeneutic themes. The approach is favoured when context shapes experience in ways that a single case cannot fully illuminate.	Multiple-case study design investigates two or more bounded real-world cases using the same research protocol, then compares findings across cases to identify patterns, contrasts, and explanatory insights that a single case could not produce. Developed primarily through Robert Yin's replication logic and Robert Stake's collective case tradition, the approach is particularly powerful when a researcher needs to determine whether a phenomenon occurs under varied conditions or to test an emerging theoretical explanation against rival contexts.