Comparer des méthodes

	Ethnographie critique	Analyse narrative
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	Late 20th century (~1980s–1993 systematisation)	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
Auteur d'origine	Jim Thomas (systematised); rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory (Adorno, Horkheimer) and feminist/postcolonial traditions	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
Type	Qualitative research method	Qualitative interpretive method
Source fondatrice	Thomas, J. (1993). Doing Critical Ethnography. Sage Publications.	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
Alias	critical ethnographic research, critical qualitative ethnography, advocacy ethnography, emancipatory ethnography	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
Apparentées	6	6
Résumé	Critical ethnography is a qualitative research approach that combines sustained fieldwork immersion with explicit critical theory to examine how power, inequality, and ideology shape the lived experiences of marginalised communities. Unlike conventional ethnography, which aims to describe a culture as it is, critical ethnography commits the researcher to questioning what is taken for granted and to producing knowledge that can serve as a resource for social change. Rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory and expanded through feminist, postcolonial, and race-critical traditions, it treats the research process itself as a political act.	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.