방법 비교

	비판적 내용 분석	비판적 주제 분석
분야	질적 방법	질적 방법
계열	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
기원 연도	1980s–2000s (consolidated in practice by the 1990s–2000s)	2000s–2010s (consolidation as named variant)
창시자	Building on Krippendorff (1980) and Altheide (1996); synthesised through critical theory traditions (Frankfurt School, feminist and race critical scholars)	Draws on Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke (thematic analysis, 2006) combined with critical theory traditions (Frankfurt School, feminist and postcolonial theorists)
유형	Qualitative analytical approach	Qualitative analysis approach
원전	Altheide, D. L. (1996). Qualitative Media Analysis. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803970892	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
별칭	CCA, critical textual analysis, ideological content analysis, critical qualitative content analysis	CTA, critical-theoretic thematic analysis, thematic analysis with critical lens, critical qualitative thematic inquiry
관련	5	5
요약	Critical content analysis is a qualitative approach that examines texts, media, and documents not merely for manifest meaning but for how they construct, reinforce, or contest relations of power, ideology, race, gender, and class. Grounded in critical theory traditions, it asks whose interests a text serves, what voices are silenced, and how language and representation naturalise dominant worldviews. It combines systematic analytic rigour with an explicitly emancipatory or transformative research stance.	Critical thematic analysis (CTA) is a qualitative approach that combines the systematic coding procedures of Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis with the interrogative stance of critical theory. Rather than merely describing patterns in data, CTA asks whose interests those patterns serve, what power relations they reflect, and what is absent or silenced. It is used to surface ideology, structural inequality, and hegemonic assumptions embedded in participants' accounts or in texts.