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	Ricerca comparativa sulla storia di vita	Studio di caso comparativo
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1920s (life history origins); comparative variant prominent from 1980s–1990s	1984 (Yin); 1995 (Stake)
Ideatore	Ivor Goodson; influenced by C. Wright Mills and W. I. Thomas & Florian Znaniecki	Robert K. Yin; Robert E. Stake
Tipo	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative / mixed research design
Fonte seminale	Goodson, I. F. (Ed.). (1992). Studying Teachers' Lives. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0415064248	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
Alias	comparative life history, cross-case life history, comparative biographical method, comparative biographical life history	cross-case study, multi-site case study, multiple case study design, comparative case analysis
Correlati	6	4
Sintesi	Comparative life history research is a qualitative approach that collects extended first-person accounts of individuals' lives across two or more cases, groups, or social contexts, then systematically compares these accounts to identify shared patterns, divergences, and the social forces that shape biographical trajectories. It bridges the depth of life history with the analytical leverage of cross-case comparison, making it especially powerful for understanding how social structure, culture, or institutional context shapes individual experience over time.	Comparative case study is a qualitative research design in which two or more bounded cases are studied in depth and then systematically compared to identify similarities, differences, and patterns across contexts. Rooted in Yin's replication logic and Stake's multiple case framework, it is particularly suited to questions that ask how or why a phenomenon unfolds differently — or similarly — across distinct settings, populations, or time periods.