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	Note sul Campo	Etnografia	Osservazione non partecipante
Campo	Metodologia delle indagini	Qualitativo	Metodologia delle indagini
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Late 19th century (formalized in 20th century)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)	Formalized mid-20th century (Gold 1958); practice dates to late 19th-century social surveys
Ideatore	Rooted in 19th-century anthropology and sociology; systematized by ethnographers such as Bronislaw Malinowski and later Robert Emerson et al.	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology	Raymond Gold (role typology); earlier roots in social survey movement and Chicago School sociology
Tipo	Qualitative data collection and recording technique	Qualitative fieldwork tradition	Qualitative / quantitative observational data collection
Fonte seminale	Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226206813	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462	Gold, R. L. (1958). Roles in sociological field observations. Social Forces, 36(3), 217–223.
Alias	fieldnotes, observational notes, ethnographic notes, jottings	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research	detached observation, systematic observation, structured field observation, external observation
Correlati	6	5	5
Sintesi	Field notes are detailed written records created by researchers during or immediately after direct observation in a naturalistic setting. They capture what is seen, heard, and experienced — including behaviors, interactions, physical environments, and the researcher's own analytic impressions — forming the primary data source for ethnographic and observational studies.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.	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.