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	Fenomenologia Comparativa	Studio di caso comparativo
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Late 20th century (comparative applications prominent from the 1980s–1990s onward)	1984 (Yin); 1995 (Stake)
Ideatore	Edmund Husserl (foundational); systematised in comparative application by Amedeo Giorgi, Max van Manen, and others	Robert K. Yin; Robert E. Stake
Tipo	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative / mixed research design
Fonte seminale	van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791404645	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
Alias	cross-group phenomenology, multi-group phenomenological study, comparative phenomenological inquiry, contrastive phenomenology	cross-case study, multi-site case study, multiple case study design, comparative case analysis
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	Comparative phenomenology applies phenomenological inquiry to two or more distinct groups, cultures, or contexts, explicitly contrasting how each group lives through and makes meaning of a shared phenomenon. Rather than describing a single unified essence, it reveals both common structures and meaningful differences in lived experience across comparison units. The approach is grounded in Husserlian and hermeneutic phenomenology but extends the standard single-group design into a structured cross-group analysis.	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.