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	Etnografia focalizzata	Case Study Research
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Late 1990s–early 2000s (Knoblauch's systematic account, 2005)	1984 (seminal codification)
Ideatore	Hubert Knoblauch (theorised and named); antecedents in applied medical and organisational ethnography	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)
Tipo	Qualitative research method	Qualitative research design
Fonte seminale	Knoblauch, H. (2005). Focused Ethnography. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 6(3), Art. 44.	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
Alias	problem-focused ethnography, short-term ethnography, rapid ethnography, focused field study	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology
Correlati	6	5
Sintesi	Focused ethnography is a condensed, problem-centred variant of classical ethnography in which a researcher with prior domain knowledge enters a specific social setting for a bounded period — typically days to weeks rather than months or years — to study one clearly defined issue or practice. Developed as a response to the time and resource constraints of applied research, it is widely used in healthcare, organisational studies, and professional education, where the researcher's existing familiarity with the setting allows rapid, targeted data collection without sacrificing ethnographic depth.	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.