השוואת שיטות

	מחקר השוואתי של היסטוריות חיים	מחקר נרטיבי השוואתי
תחום	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1920s (life history origins); comparative variant prominent from 1980s–1990s	1990s–2000s
הוגה השיטה	Ivor Goodson; influenced by C. Wright Mills and W. I. Thomas & Florian Znaniecki	D. Jean Clandinin & F. Michael Connelly (narrative inquiry); comparative extension by the broader qualitative comparative tradition
סוג	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative comparative research design
מקור מכונן	Goodson, I. F. (Ed.). (1992). Studying Teachers' Lives. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0415064248	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-0787943523
כינויים	comparative life history, cross-case life history, comparative biographical method, comparative biographical life history	comparative narrative inquiry, cross-case narrative research, narrative comparison, comparative narrative analysis
קשורות	6	6
תקציר	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.	Comparative narrative research is a qualitative design that collects personal stories or life accounts from two or more participants, groups, or contexts and systematically compares them to reveal patterns, contrasts, and contextual influences. Drawing on narrative inquiry's attention to experience-as-story, it adds a deliberate comparative logic to identify what is shared, what diverges, and why differences emerge across cases.