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	การสร้างทฤษฎีเชิงเปรียบเทียบแบบทฤษฎีฐานราก	การวิจัยเชิงพรรณนาเปรียบเทียบ
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1967 (base); comparative application formalised from the 1980s onward	1990s–2000s
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (grounded theory base); comparative extension developed by multiple scholars	D. Jean Clandinin & F. Michael Connelly (narrative inquiry); comparative extension by the broader qualitative comparative tradition
ประเภท	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative comparative research design
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. Aldine. ISBN: 978-0202302607	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-0787943523
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	cross-site grounded theory, multi-group grounded theory, comparative GT, grounded theory comparative analysis	comparative narrative inquiry, cross-case narrative research, narrative comparison, comparative narrative analysis
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	6
สรุป	Comparative grounded theory applies the systematic inductive logic of grounded theory across two or more distinct groups, settings, or time points. Rather than generating a theory grounded in a single context, it builds theory that explains variation and similarity across contexts, producing conceptually richer and more transferable explanatory frameworks than single-site grounded theory studies.	Comparative narrative research is a qualitative design that collects personal stories or life accounts from two or more participants, groups, or contexts and systematically compares them to reveal patterns, contrasts, and contextual influences. Drawing on narrative inquiry's attention to experience-as-story, it adds a deliberate comparative logic to identify what is shared, what diverges, and why differences emerge across cases.