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	Nghiên cứu lịch sử cuộc đời diễn giải	Nghiên cứu tiểu sử
Lĩnh vực	Định tính	Định tính
Họ	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Năm ra đời	1920s–1980s (Chicago School origins; interpretive turn 1980s–1990s)	Late 19th–early 20th century (Dilthey ~1883; Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920)
Người khởi xướng	Daniel Bertaux; Allison Cole & J. Gary Knowles (interpretive tradition)	Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutic foundations); Thomas & Znaniecki (sociological application); Norman Denzin (interpretive biography)
Loại	Qualitative interpretive research design	Qualitative research method
Công trình gốc	Cole, A. L., & Knowles, J. G. (2001). Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759101302	Denzin, N. K. (1989). Interpretive Biography. Sage Publications.
Tên gọi khác	life history method, interpretive biographical method, life history inquiry, lived-life narrative research	life history research, biographical method, life story research, biographical narrative inquiry
Liên quan	6	6
Tóm tắt	Interpretive life history research is a qualitative design in which the researcher and participant collaboratively construct a detailed account of the participant's entire life course — or a significant portion of it — and then interpret that account to understand how identity, context, and meaning-making unfold over time. Grounded in an interpretive epistemology, it treats the narrator's life story not as a neutral record of facts but as a meaning-laden construction shaped by culture, social position, and lived experience.	Biographical research is a qualitative method that examines individual lives in depth — through life-history interviews, personal documents, letters, and autobiographical narratives — to understand how personal experience intersects with social, historical, and cultural forces. Rooted in Wilhelm Dilthey's hermeneutics and made prominent in sociology by Thomas and Znaniecki's study of Polish immigrants, it treats the individual life story as a window onto broader social structures and processes. It belongs to the narrative inquiry subfamily alongside oral history and life-story research.