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	सहभागी मौखिक इतिहास	जीवन इतिहास अनुसंधान
क्षेत्र	गुणात्मक	गुणात्मक
परिवार	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
उद्भव वर्ष	1970s–1990s (formalized participatory dimension by 1990)	Early 20th century (Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920); systematised as interview method in the 1990s
प्रवर्तक	Michael Frisch (shared authority concept); broader roots in Alessandro Portelli and oral history movement	William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (sociological tradition); Robert Atkinson (interview method)
प्रकार	Qualitative participatory research design	Qualitative research method
मौलिक स्रोत	Frisch, M. (1990). A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791402481	Atkinson, R. (1998). The Life Story Interview. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761904496
उपनाम	community oral history, collaborative oral history, participatory memory research, POH	life history method, life-history interview, biographical research, personal narrative research
संबंधित	5	6
सारांश	Participatory oral history is a qualitative research design in which community members act as co-researchers alongside academic investigators to collect, interpret, and share first-person accounts of lived experience and collective memory. Drawing on Michael Frisch's concept of 'shared authority,' it repositions research participants as active agents in the knowledge-production process rather than passive informants, making it especially powerful for documenting marginalized voices and community-held histories that would otherwise remain invisible in official archives.	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.