Comparer des méthodes

	Recherche comparative sur les histoires de vie	Histoire orale
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1920s (life history origins); comparative variant prominent from 1980s–1990s	1948 (modern disciplinary form); broader roots in 19th-century folklore and anthropology
Auteur d'origine	Ivor Goodson; influenced by C. Wright Mills and W. I. Thomas & Florian Znaniecki	Allan Nevins (Columbia University Oral History Project, 1948); earlier roots in folk-life and anthropological fieldwork
Type	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative research method
Source fondatrice	Goodson, I. F. (Ed.). (1992). Studying Teachers' Lives. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0415064248	Ritchie, D. A. (2003). Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195176957
Alias	comparative life history, cross-case life history, comparative biographical method, comparative biographical life history	life history interview, oral testimony, spoken history, oral narrative research
Apparentées	6	6
Résumé	Comparative life history research is a qualitative approach that collects extended first-person accounts of individuals' lives across two or more cases, groups, or social contexts, then systematically compares these accounts to identify shared patterns, divergences, and the social forces that shape biographical trajectories. It bridges the depth of life history with the analytical leverage of cross-case comparison, making it especially powerful for understanding how social structure, culture, or institutional context shapes individual experience over time.	Oral history is a qualitative research method that collects, preserves, and interprets first-person spoken accounts of past events, experiences, and social processes. By recording in-depth interviews with individuals who witnessed or participated in historical events, oral historians document perspectives that written records often exclude. The method bridges historical scholarship and social science, treating the narrator's memory, subjectivity, and voice as primary evidence rather than as limitations to be corrected.