Comparer des méthodes

	Recherche biographique de terrain	Ethnographie
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1920s (Thomas & Znaniecki); systematised 1980s–1990s	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Auteur d'origine	W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (early sociological use); Robert Atkinson and Norman Denzin (methodological codification)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Type	Qualitative research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Source fondatrice	Atkinson, R. (1998). The Life Story Interview. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761904786	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	life history method, biographical field research, life story research, field biography	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Apparentées	6	5
Résumé	Field-based life history research is a qualitative design that combines sustained ethnographic fieldwork with in-depth biographical interviewing to reconstruct how individuals have experienced and given meaning to their lives within particular social, cultural, and historical contexts. Unlike archive-only biographical work, the field-based variant requires the researcher to be physically present in the participant's social world over time, gathering both spoken life stories and observational data from that world.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.