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	Disegno misto qualitativo-dominante focalizzato sul caso	Etnografia
Campo	Disegno della ricerca	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2000s–2010s	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Ideatore	Creswell & Plano Clark; Teddlie & Tashakkori (priority notation)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Tipo	Mixed methods research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Fonte seminale	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1483344379	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	QUAL-dominant case study mixed methods, case-embedded qualitative-priority mixed design, qual-priority case mixed methods, qualitative-led case-focused MMR	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	Qualitative-dominant case-focused mixed methods design embeds quantitative evidence inside a primarily qualitative case study framework. The case — a bounded unit such as a school, organization, or community — is examined in depth through qualitative means, while quantitative data serve a secondary, supplementary role. Priority is firmly with the qualitative strand, which drives interpretation and findings.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.