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	Tolkande fallstudie	Grounded Theory	Narrativ forskning
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativ forskning	Kvalitativ forskning
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1978–1995 (Stake's foundational works)	1967	2000
Upphovsperson	Robert E. Stake; extended by Bent Flyvbjerg	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss	D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly
Typ	Qualitative research design	Method	Method
Ursprungskälla	Stake, R. E. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803957671	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. Jossey-Bass.
Alias	intrinsic case study, constructivist case study, qualitative case study, naturalistic case study	GT, Grounded Theory Approach	Narrative Analysis, Narrative Research, Life Story Method
Närliggande	6	3	3
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.	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.	Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that treats stories and life narratives as primary data, analyzing how individuals construct meaning and identity through storytelling. Developed by D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly (2000), narrative inquiry examines the narratives people tell about their lives, experiences, and transitions, understanding that people make sense of experience through narrative.