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	การสืบสวนเชิงพรรณนา	การวิจัยเชิงกรณีศึกษา (Case Study Research)	การวิเคราะห์เรื่องเล่า
สาขาวิชา	การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ	การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2000	1984 (Yin); 1995 (Stake)	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly	Robert K. Yin; Robert E. Stake; Sharan Merriam	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
ประเภท	Method	Method	Qualitative interpretive method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. Jossey-Bass.	Yin, R. K. (2014). Case study research: Design and methods (5th ed.). Sage Publications.	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Narrative Analysis, Narrative Research, Life Story Method	Case Study, Single Case Study, Multiple Case Study	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	4	6
สรุป	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.	Case study research is an intensive, contextual investigation of a single case (or small number of cases) to explore a phenomenon in depth. Developed systematically by Robert K. Yin (1984) and Robert E. Stake (1995), case study research employs multiple data sources (interviews, observation, documents, artifacts) to produce a holistic understanding of a bounded phenomenon within its real-world context.	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.