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	Teoria Fondata Costruttivista Critica	Analisi Tematica Critica
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2000s–2010s (post-Charmaz 2006)	2000s–2010s (consolidation as named variant)
Ideatore	Kathy Charmaz (constructivist GT base); synthesis with critical theory by various scholars (e.g., Belfrage, Hauf; Street; Wuest)	Draws on Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke (thematic analysis, 2006) combined with critical theory traditions (Frankfurt School, feminist and postcolonial theorists)
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative analysis approach
Fonte seminale	Charmaz, K. (2014). Constructing Grounded Theory (2nd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-0857029164	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Alias	Critical CGT, Critical constructivist GT, Emancipatory constructivist grounded theory, Critical Charmaz grounded theory	CTA, critical-theoretic thematic analysis, thematic analysis with critical lens, critical qualitative thematic inquiry
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	Critical constructivist grounded theory combines Kathy Charmaz's constructivist grounded theory with an explicit critical theoretical lens — typically feminist, critical race, or Freireian frameworks — to generate theory that not only explains a social process but also interrogates power relations, structural inequalities, and ideological forces that shape participants' experiences. The result is grounded theory with an emancipatory intent.	Critical thematic analysis (CTA) is a qualitative approach that combines the systematic coding procedures of Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis with the interrogative stance of critical theory. Rather than merely describing patterns in data, CTA asks whose interests those patterns serve, what power relations they reflect, and what is absent or silenced. It is used to surface ideology, structural inequality, and hegemonic assumptions embedded in participants' accounts or in texts.