השוואת שיטות

	אתנוגרפיה השתתפותית	אתנוגרפיה	תצפית משתתפת
תחום	איכותני	איכותני	מחקר איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1990s–2000s (collaborative turn); classical roots early 20th century	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)	1922
הוגה השיטה	Rooted in classical ethnography (Malinowski, Boas); collaborative turn formalised by Luke Eric Lassiter and others in the 1990s–2000s	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology	Bronislaw Malinowski
סוג	Qualitative research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition	Method
מקור מכונן	Lassiter, L. E. (2005). The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226469058	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462	Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books. ISBN: 978-0465026432
כינויים	collaborative ethnography, participatory fieldwork, engaged ethnography, community-based ethnography	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research	ethnographic observation, participatory observation, overt observation, immersive observation
קשורות	5	5	4
תקציר	Participatory ethnography is a qualitative research design in which community members are not merely subjects of study but active collaborators throughout the research process — from problem formulation and data collection to analysis and writing. Building on classical ethnographic fieldwork, it shifts the researcher–participant relationship toward genuine partnership, producing knowledge that is accountable to the communities from which it emerges.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.	Participant observation is a qualitative research method in which the researcher embeds themselves within a community, organization, or social setting for an extended period, engaging in the activities and relationships of the group while systematically observing and documenting behavior, interactions, and cultural meaning. Pioneered by Malinowski in the 1920s and developed in anthropology, the method has been adopted across sociology, education, health sciences, and organizational research. The researcher functions as both insider (participating in group activities) and outsider (maintaining analytical distance), generating thick description—rich accounts of context, behavior, and meaning that reveal how people actually live and interact.