השוואת שיטות

	מבנה מחקר מקרה יחיד	אתנוגרפיה
תחום	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1984 (Yin's seminal protocol); 1995 (Stake's art-of-case-study framework)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
הוגה השיטה	Robert K. Yin; Robert E. Stake	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
סוג	Qualitative research method	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
מקור מכונן	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
כינויים	single-site case study, holistic single-case design, intrinsic case study, bounded case inquiry	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
קשורות	6	5
תקציר	A single-case study is a qualitative research design that investigates one bounded instance — an organization, program, event, individual, or community — in its real-world context through multiple converging sources of evidence. Developed into a rigorous social-science method chiefly by Robert Yin and Robert Stake, it is especially powerful when the case is unique, extreme, critical, or revelatory, and when the research question begins with 'how' or 'why' rather than 'how many.'	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.