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	Etnografia Istituzionale Multi-Caso	Etnografia Comparativa
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1987 (IE foundation); multi-case application developed through 1990s–2000s	1987–1995 (systematic comparative ethnography formalized)
Ideatore	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); multi-site adaptation by IE practitioners	George E. Marcus (multi-sited formulation); Charles C. Ragin (comparative logic)
Tipo	Qualitative multi-site research design	Qualitative comparative research design
Fonte seminale	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105690	Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 95–117.
Alias	multi-site institutional ethnography, comparative institutional ethnography, multi-case IE, multiple-site IE	multi-sited ethnography, cross-site ethnography, comparative field research, comparative participant observation
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Multiple case-based institutional ethnography combines Dorothy E. Smith's institutional ethnography with a multi-site case structure, enabling researchers to trace how the same ruling relations, texts, and institutional processes operate across two or more distinct organizational or community settings. By holding the analytical framework constant while varying the site, this design reveals both the trans-local reach of ruling apparatus and the locally specific ways people navigate institutional coordination.	Comparative ethnography is a qualitative research design that conducts in-depth ethnographic fieldwork across two or more sites, groups, communities, or cultural settings in order to generate systematic comparisons. Rather than describing a single community in isolation, it traces similarities, differences, and interconnections across cases, producing theoretically grounded insights that no single site could yield alone.