เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	ชาติพันธุ์วรรณนาเชิงมุ่งเน้น	ทฤษฎีฐานราก
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	Late 1990s–early 2000s (Knoblauch's systematic account, 2005)	1967
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Hubert Knoblauch (theorised and named); antecedents in applied medical and organisational ethnography	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss
ประเภท	Qualitative research method	Method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Knoblauch, H. (2005). Focused Ethnography. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 6(3), Art. 44.	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	problem-focused ethnography, short-term ethnography, rapid ethnography, focused field study	GT, Grounded Theory Approach
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	3
สรุป	Focused ethnography is a condensed, problem-centred variant of classical ethnography in which a researcher with prior domain knowledge enters a specific social setting for a bounded period — typically days to weeks rather than months or years — to study one clearly defined issue or practice. Developed as a response to the time and resource constraints of applied research, it is widely used in healthcare, organisational studies, and professional education, where the researcher's existing familiarity with the setting allows rapid, targeted data collection without sacrificing ethnographic depth.	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.