השוואת שיטות

	שיטת היסטוריה שבעל-פה אורכית	מחקר תולדות חיים
תחום	שיטות שדה	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1970s–1980s (systematic formulation); longstanding practice in oral history	Early 20th century (Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920); systematised as interview method in the 1990s
הוגה השיטה	Paul Thompson; developed further by Ken Plummer and oral history practitioners	William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (sociological tradition); Robert Atkinson (interview method)
סוג	Qualitative longitudinal research design	Qualitative research method
מקור מכונן	Thompson, P. (2000). The Voice of the Past: Oral History (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0192893468	Atkinson, R. (1998). The Life Story Interview. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761904496
כינויים	repeated oral history interviewing, longitudinal life history, serial oral history, longitudinal biographical interviewing	life history method, life-history interview, biographical research, personal narrative research
קשורות	4	6
תקציר	Longitudinal oral history method is a qualitative research design in which the same participants are interviewed repeatedly over an extended period — months or years — using oral history interviewing techniques. By returning to narrators across time, researchers can trace how personal accounts, identities, and interpretations of experience shift and evolve, capturing the processual and biographical dimensions of social life that a single interview cannot reveal.	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.