השוואת שיטות

	מחקר תולדות חיים מבוסס-שטח	היסטוריה שבעל פה
תחום	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1920s (Thomas & Znaniecki); systematised 1980s–1990s	1948 (modern disciplinary form); broader roots in 19th-century folklore and anthropology
הוגה השיטה	W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (early sociological use); Robert Atkinson and Norman Denzin (methodological codification)	Allan Nevins (Columbia University Oral History Project, 1948); earlier roots in folk-life and anthropological fieldwork
סוג	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
מקור מכונן	Atkinson, R. (1998). The Life Story Interview. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761904786	Ritchie, D. A. (2003). Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195176957
כינויים	life history method, biographical field research, life story research, field biography	life history interview, oral testimony, spoken history, oral narrative research
קשורות	6	6
תקציר	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.	Oral history is a qualitative research method that collects, preserves, and interprets first-person spoken accounts of past events, experiences, and social processes. By recording in-depth interviews with individuals who witnessed or participated in historical events, oral historians document perspectives that written records often exclude. The method bridges historical scholarship and social science, treating the narrator's memory, subjectivity, and voice as primary evidence rather than as limitations to be corrected.