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	Life History Research	Case Study Research
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Early 20th century (Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920); systematised as interview method in the 1990s	1984 (seminal codification)
Ideatore	William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (sociological tradition); Robert Atkinson (interview method)	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)
Tipo	Qualitative research method	Qualitative research design
Fonte seminale	Atkinson, R. (1998). The Life Story Interview. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761904496	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
Alias	life history method, life-history interview, biographical research, personal narrative research	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology
Correlati	6	5
Sintesi	Life history research is a qualitative method that captures the full arc of an individual's life — or a significant portion of it — through extended biographical interviewing and analysis of personal documents. Rooted in early Chicago School sociology, the method treats each life story as a window into broader social, cultural, and historical forces. The researcher and participant co-construct a narrative account that illuminates how personal experience is shaped by, and in turn shapes, wider social structures and processes.	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.