השוואת שיטות

	אוטואתנוגרפיה ביקורתית	ניתוח תמטי רפלקסיבי
תחום	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2000s–2010s (crystallised as named approach ~2012)	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
הוגה השיטה	Robin M. Boylorn, Mark P. Orbe (editors of foundational volume); D. Soyini Madison (critical ethnography lineage)	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
סוג	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
מקור מכונן	Madison, D. S. (2005). Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761929505	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
כינויים	CAE, critical auto-ethnography, critical self-ethnography, critical performative autoethnography	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
קשורות	6	6
תקציר	Critical autoethnography combines the self-reflective personal narrative of autoethnography with the social-justice orientation of critical theory. The researcher uses their own lived experience as primary data to interrogate power structures, systemic inequalities, and cultural norms — treating the personal not merely as testimony but as a site for political and theoretical critique. It is widely used to center the voices of marginalized groups and challenge dominant social narratives.	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.