手法を比較

	解釈的ライフヒストリー研究	Biographical Research
分野	質的手法	質的手法
系統	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
提唱年	1920s–1980s (Chicago School origins; interpretive turn 1980s–1990s)	Late 19th–early 20th century (Dilthey ~1883; Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920)
提唱者	Daniel Bertaux; Allison Cole & J. Gary Knowles (interpretive tradition)	Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutic foundations); Thomas & Znaniecki (sociological application); Norman Denzin (interpretive biography)
種類	Qualitative interpretive research design	Qualitative research method
原典	Cole, A. L., & Knowles, J. G. (2001). Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759101302	Denzin, N. K. (1989). Interpretive Biography. Sage Publications.
別名	life history method, interpretive biographical method, life history inquiry, lived-life narrative research	life history research, biographical method, life story research, biographical narrative inquiry
関連	6	6
概要	Interpretive life history research is a qualitative design in which the researcher and participant collaboratively construct a detailed account of the participant's entire life course — or a significant portion of it — and then interpret that account to understand how identity, context, and meaning-making unfold over time. Grounded in an interpretive epistemology, it treats the narrator's life story not as a neutral record of facts but as a meaning-laden construction shaped by culture, social position, and lived experience.	Biographical research is a qualitative method that examines individual lives in depth — through life-history interviews, personal documents, letters, and autobiographical narratives — to understand how personal experience intersects with social, historical, and cultural forces. Rooted in Wilhelm Dilthey's hermeneutics and made prominent in sociology by Thomas and Znaniecki's study of Polish immigrants, it treats the individual life story as a window onto broader social structures and processes. It belongs to the narrative inquiry subfamily alongside oral history and life-story research.