方法对比

	Comparative Life History Research	传记研究
领域	质性	质性
方法族	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
起源年份	1920s (life history origins); comparative variant prominent from 1980s–1990s	Late 19th–early 20th century (Dilthey ~1883; Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920)
提出者	Ivor Goodson; influenced by C. Wright Mills and W. I. Thomas & Florian Znaniecki	Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutic foundations); Thomas & Znaniecki (sociological application); Norman Denzin (interpretive biography)
类型	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative research method
开创性文献	Goodson, I. F. (Ed.). (1992). Studying Teachers' Lives. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0415064248	Denzin, N. K. (1989). Interpretive Biography. Sage Publications.
别名	comparative life history, cross-case life history, comparative biographical method, comparative biographical life history	life history research, biographical method, life story research, biographical narrative inquiry
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摘要	Comparative life history research is a qualitative approach that collects extended first-person accounts of individuals' lives across two or more cases, groups, or social contexts, then systematically compares these accounts to identify shared patterns, divergences, and the social forces that shape biographical trajectories. It bridges the depth of life history with the analytical leverage of cross-case comparison, making it especially powerful for understanding how social structure, culture, or institutional context shapes individual experience over time.	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.