Comparer des méthodes

	Recherche biographique comparative	Étude de cas comparative
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1970s–1980s	1984 (Yin); 1995 (Stake)
Auteur d'origine	Daniel Bertaux; Paul Thompson	Robert K. Yin; Robert E. Stake
Type	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative / mixed research design
Source fondatrice	Bertaux, D. (Ed.). (1981). Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803914025	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
Alias	comparative biography, cross-case biographical analysis, biographical comparative method, comparative life-story research	cross-case study, multi-site case study, multiple case study design, comparative case analysis
Apparentées	6	4
Résumé	Comparative biographical research is a qualitative design that gathers in-depth life-story accounts from multiple participants and systematically compares them to identify structural patterns, commonalities, and divergences across individual biographies. Rooted in the sociological life-history tradition, it moves beyond single-case description to generate broader theoretical insights about how social conditions, historical contexts, and personal agency shape individual trajectories.	Comparative case study is a qualitative research design in which two or more bounded cases are studied in depth and then systematically compared to identify similarities, differences, and patterns across contexts. Rooted in Yin's replication logic and Stake's multiple case framework, it is particularly suited to questions that ask how or why a phenomenon unfolds differently — or similarly — across distinct settings, populations, or time periods.