השוואת שיטות

	מחקר תולדות חיים	ניתוח נרטיבי
תחום	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	Early 20th century (Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920); systematised as interview method in the 1990s	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
הוגה השיטה	William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (sociological tradition); Robert Atkinson (interview method)	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
סוג	Qualitative research method	Qualitative interpretive method
מקור מכונן	Atkinson, R. (1998). The Life Story Interview. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761904496	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
כינויים	life history method, life-history interview, biographical research, personal narrative research	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
קשורות	6	6
תקציר	Life history research is a qualitative method that captures the full arc of an individual's life — or a significant portion of it — through extended biographical interviewing and analysis of personal documents. Rooted in early Chicago School sociology, the method treats each life story as a window into broader social, cultural, and historical forces. The researcher and participant co-construct a narrative account that illuminates how personal experience is shaped by, and in turn shapes, wider social structures and processes.	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.