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	Case Study Research	Osservazione non partecipante
Campo	Qualitativo	Metodologia delle indagini
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1984 (seminal codification)	Formalized mid-20th century (Gold 1958); practice dates to late 19th-century social surveys
Ideatore	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)	Raymond Gold (role typology); earlier roots in social survey movement and Chicago School sociology
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative / quantitative observational data collection
Fonte seminale	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Gold, R. L. (1958). Roles in sociological field observations. Social Forces, 36(3), 217–223.
Alias	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology	detached observation, systematic observation, structured field observation, external observation
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	Case study research is a qualitative research design that investigates a specific phenomenon, individual, group, organisation, or event in depth within its real-world context. Systematised by Robert K. Yin in 1984, it supports single-case and multiple-case designs and draws on multiple data sources — interviews, observation, documents, and artefacts — to build a rich, contextualised account of a bounded unit.	Non-participant observation is a data-collection method in which the researcher observes behavior, interactions, or events in a natural or structured setting without joining or influencing the activity under study. The observer maintains a deliberate distance from participants to minimize their own effect on the phenomena being recorded, producing field notes, behavioral tallies, or recordings that reflect naturally occurring behavior rather than behavior shaped by researcher involvement.