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	Ricerca biografica interpretativa	Ricerca interpretativa sulla storia di vita
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1989–2002 (interpretive systematisation)	1920s–1980s (Chicago School origins; interpretive turn 1980s–1990s)
Ideatore	Norman K. Denzin (interpretive turn); Brian Roberts (biographical research synthesis)	Daniel Bertaux; Allison Cole & J. Gary Knowles (interpretive tradition)
Tipo	Qualitative biographical research design	Qualitative interpretive research design
Fonte seminale	Roberts, B. (2002). Biographical Research. Open University Press. ISBN: 978-0335200436	Cole, A. L., & Knowles, J. G. (2001). Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759101302
Alias	biographical-interpretive method, hermeneutic biography, interpretive life-story research, IBR	life history method, interpretive biographical method, life history inquiry, lived-life narrative research
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Interpretive biographical research is a qualitative design that collects and hermeneutically analyses the life stories of individuals to illuminate how personal biography intersects with social structure and historical context. Drawing on the interpretive tradition of Wilhelm Dilthey and systematised by Norman Denzin and Brian Roberts, it treats a life account not as a factual record but as a constructed, meaning-laden narrative that reveals how people make sense of their own trajectories.	Interpretive life history research is a qualitative design in which the researcher and participant collaboratively construct a detailed account of the participant's entire life course — or a significant portion of it — and then interpret that account to understand how identity, context, and meaning-making unfold over time. Grounded in an interpretive epistemology, it treats the narrator's life story not as a neutral record of facts but as a meaning-laden construction shaped by culture, social position, and lived experience.