Linganisha mbinu

	Utafiti wa Kimaadili	Utafiti wa kifani	Grounded Theory
Nyanja	Mbinu za Kimaelezo	Mbinu za Kimaelezo	Utafiti wa Kimaelezo
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Mwaka wa asili	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)	1984 (seminal codification)	1967
Mwanzilishi	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss
Aina	Qualitative fieldwork tradition	Qualitative research design	Method
Chanzo asilia	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.
Majina mbadala	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology	GT, Grounded Theory Approach
Zinazohusiana	5	5	3
Muhtasari	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.	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.	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.