Comparar métodos

	Pesquisa de História de Vida	Pesquisa de Estudo de Caso	Etnografia	Teoria Fundamentada
Área	Qualitativo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo	Pesquisa qualitativa
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ano de origem	Early 20th century (Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920); systematised as interview method in the 1990s	1984 (seminal codification)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)	1967
Autor original	William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (sociological tradition); Robert Atkinson (interview method)	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss
Tipo	Qualitative research method	Qualitative research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition	Method
Fonte seminal	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	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.
Outros nomes	life history method, life-history interview, biographical research, personal narrative research	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research	GT, Grounded Theory Approach
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Resumo	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.	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.	Grounded Theory (GT) is a systematic qualitative research methodology in which theory emerges directly from data through iterative analysis, rather than being imposed before data collection. Developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in 1967, GT prioritizes generating explanatory frameworks grounded in evidence.