Confronta i metodi

	Ricerca biografica interpretativa	Storia orale interpretativa
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1989–2002 (interpretive systematisation)	1970s–1990s (interpretive turn in oral history)
Ideatore	Norman K. Denzin (interpretive turn); Brian Roberts (biographical research synthesis)	Alessandro Portelli; Donald Ritchie
Tipo	Qualitative biographical research design	Qualitative research design
Fonte seminale	Roberts, B. (2002). Biographical Research. Open University Press. ISBN: 978-0335200436	Portelli, A. (1991). The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791406229
Alias	biographical-interpretive method, hermeneutic biography, interpretive life-story research, IBR	interpretive oral history method, hermeneutic oral history, oral history interpretation, IOH
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 oral history is a qualitative research design that collects and analyzes first-person spoken accounts of the past through an explicitly interpretive lens. Rather than treating recorded testimony as a transparent factual record, it foregrounds the meaning-making process — examining how narrators construct, remember, and frame their experiences — drawing on hermeneutic and interpretive traditions to illuminate subjectivity, memory, and historical consciousness.