השוואת שיטות

	מחקר נרטיבי השוואתי	מחקר ביוגרפי
תחום	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1990s–2000s	Late 19th–early 20th century (Dilthey ~1883; Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920)
הוגה השיטה	D. Jean Clandinin & F. Michael Connelly (narrative inquiry); comparative extension by the broader qualitative comparative tradition	Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutic foundations); Thomas & Znaniecki (sociological application); Norman Denzin (interpretive biography)
סוג	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative research method
מקור מכונן	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-0787943523	Denzin, N. K. (1989). Interpretive Biography. Sage Publications.
כינויים	comparative narrative inquiry, cross-case narrative research, narrative comparison, comparative narrative analysis	life history research, biographical method, life story research, biographical narrative inquiry
קשורות	6	6
תקציר	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.	Biographical research is a qualitative method that examines individual lives in depth — through life-history interviews, personal documents, letters, and autobiographical narratives — to understand how personal experience intersects with social, historical, and cultural forces. Rooted in Wilhelm Dilthey's hermeneutics and made prominent in sociology by Thomas and Znaniecki's study of Polish immigrants, it treats the individual life story as a window onto broader social structures and processes. It belongs to the narrative inquiry subfamily alongside oral history and life-story research.