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	Tolkande fallstudie	Etnografi
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1978–1995 (Stake's foundational works)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Upphovsperson	Robert E. Stake; extended by Bent Flyvbjerg	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Typ	Qualitative research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Ursprungskälla	Stake, R. E. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803957671	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	intrinsic case study, constructivist case study, qualitative case study, naturalistic case study	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Närliggande	6	5
Sammanfattning	Interpretive case study is a qualitative research design in which the researcher selects a bounded real-world case — a person, program, event, organization, or community — and seeks to understand it from the inside, through the meanings participants themselves construct. Unlike explanatory or descriptive case study, the interpretive variant foregrounds the researcher's active role in making sense of complex, context-laden data rather than testing hypotheses or cataloguing facts.	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.