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	การวิจัยชีวประวัติเชิงเปรียบเทียบ	ประวัติศาสตร์บอกเล่า
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1970s–1980s	1948 (modern disciplinary form); broader roots in 19th-century folklore and anthropology
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Daniel Bertaux; Paul Thompson	Allan Nevins (Columbia University Oral History Project, 1948); earlier roots in folk-life and anthropological fieldwork
ประเภท	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative research method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Bertaux, D. (Ed.). (1981). Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803914025	Ritchie, D. A. (2003). Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195176957
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	comparative biography, cross-case biographical analysis, biographical comparative method, comparative life-story research	life history interview, oral testimony, spoken history, oral narrative research
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	6
สรุป	Comparative biographical research is a qualitative design that gathers in-depth life-story accounts from multiple participants and systematically compares them to identify structural patterns, commonalities, and divergences across individual biographies. Rooted in the sociological life-history tradition, it moves beyond single-case description to generate broader theoretical insights about how social conditions, historical contexts, and personal agency shape individual trajectories.	Oral history is a qualitative research method that collects, preserves, and interprets first-person spoken accounts of past events, experiences, and social processes. By recording in-depth interviews with individuals who witnessed or participated in historical events, oral historians document perspectives that written records often exclude. The method bridges historical scholarship and social science, treating the narrator's memory, subjectivity, and voice as primary evidence rather than as limitations to be corrected.