etic
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[edit] Etymology
From phonetic.
- 1962, Kenneth Lee Pike, With Heart and Mind: A Personal Synthesis of Scholarship and Devotion, page 37
- I have coined the term etic to refer to the detached observer’s view […]
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etic (comparative more etic, superlative most etic)
- (social sciences) Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from the perspective on one who is not a participant in that culture.
- 1996, Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention
- A useful example of the emic-etic distinction may be made by comparing the concept “waves on the ocean or sea” from the perspective of a European American with that of a Truk Islander […] The proposed etics here might be that both cultures understand the use of waves as vehicles for surfing and as movement reflecting the transfer of energy […] certain differences, or emics exist, for European Americans the waves may be sources of beauty — the Truk Islander has learned to use them […] as a road map.
- 1996, Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention
