Comparer des méthodes

	Étude de cas interprétative	Phénoménologie herméneutique	Enquête narrative
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif	Recherche qualitative
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1978–1995 (Stake's foundational works)	Philosophical roots 1927 (Heidegger); systematic research method from 1980s–1990s	2000
Auteur d'origine	Robert E. Stake; extended by Bent Flyvbjerg	Martin Heidegger (philosophical foundation); Max van Manen (methodological application)	D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly
Type	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method	Method
Source fondatrice	Stake, R. E. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803957671	van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791404645	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. Jossey-Bass.
Alias	intrinsic case study, constructivist case study, qualitative case study, naturalistic case study	Heideggerian phenomenology, interpretive phenomenology, hermeneutic inquiry, van Manen phenomenology	Narrative Analysis, Narrative Research, Life Story Method
Apparentées	6	6	3
Résumé	Interpretive case study is a qualitative research design in which the researcher selects a bounded real-world case — a person, program, event, organization, or community — and seeks to understand it from the inside, through the meanings participants themselves construct. Unlike explanatory or descriptive case study, the interpretive variant foregrounds the researcher's active role in making sense of complex, context-laden data rather than testing hypotheses or cataloguing facts.	Hermeneutic phenomenology is a qualitative research approach that investigates the interpreted meaning of lived experience from within the existential conditions that shape it. Rooted in Heidegger's ontology and developed as an empirical method by Max van Manen, it does not seek to bracket or suspend the researcher's understanding but instead treats that understanding as the very medium through which the meaning of experience can be disclosed. The approach is widely used in education, nursing, and social sciences to explore how people dwell in, and make sense of, their world.	Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that treats stories and life narratives as primary data, analyzing how individuals construct meaning and identity through storytelling. Developed by D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly (2000), narrative inquiry examines the narratives people tell about their lives, experiences, and transitions, understanding that people make sense of experience through narrative.