Confronta i metodi

	Storia orale interpretativa	Ricerca biografica interpretativa
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1970s–1990s (interpretive turn in oral history)	1989–2002 (interpretive systematisation)
Ideatore	Alessandro Portelli; Donald Ritchie	Norman K. Denzin (interpretive turn); Brian Roberts (biographical research synthesis)
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative biographical research design
Fonte seminale	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	Roberts, B. (2002). Biographical Research. Open University Press. ISBN: 978-0335200436
Alias	interpretive oral history method, hermeneutic oral history, oral history interpretation, IOH	biographical-interpretive method, hermeneutic biography, interpretive life-story research, IBR
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	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.	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.