השוואת שיטות

	מחקר היסטוריית חיים פרשני	היסטוריה שבעל פה
תחום	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1920s–1980s (Chicago School origins; interpretive turn 1980s–1990s)	1948 (modern disciplinary form); broader roots in 19th-century folklore and anthropology
הוגה השיטה	Daniel Bertaux; Allison Cole & J. Gary Knowles (interpretive tradition)	Allan Nevins (Columbia University Oral History Project, 1948); earlier roots in folk-life and anthropological fieldwork
סוג	Qualitative interpretive research design	Qualitative research method
מקור מכונן	Cole, A. L., & Knowles, J. G. (2001). Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759101302	Ritchie, D. A. (2003). Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195176957
כינויים	life history method, interpretive biographical method, life history inquiry, lived-life narrative research	life history interview, oral testimony, spoken history, oral narrative research
קשורות	6	6
תקציר	Interpretive life history research is a qualitative design in which the researcher and participant collaboratively construct a detailed account of the participant's entire life course — or a significant portion of it — and then interpret that account to understand how identity, context, and meaning-making unfold over time. Grounded in an interpretive epistemology, it treats the narrator's life story not as a neutral record of facts but as a meaning-laden construction shaped by culture, social position, and lived experience.	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.