emic
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- adjective
- /ˈɛmɪk/
- Specialized
- Ethnographers also attempt to understand groups of people, from the insider's perspective (i.e., from the viewpoints of the people in the group; called the emic perspective).
- emic perspective
Examples
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We look at different stakeholders from both an emic and etic perspective (from an insider and outsider view).
Academic text (2018) -
By adopting an emic approach, the anthropologist was able to present a richer description of the community's rituals from the members' viewpoints.
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Here, the emic views of ordinary villagers are quite illuminating.
Academic text (1997) -
Castaneda states that "this is an emic account of an apprenticeship as it is practiced by the American Indians of modern Mexico."
Academic text (1992) -
Grounded theory was used to examine the experience of precompetitive preparation from an emic perspective, that is, the perspective of the player.
Academic text (1995) -
A sophisticated emic approach is not the same as merely describing how people see and interpret their social worlds, although it needs to begin with such description.
Academic text (2008) -
In Deloria's command of Dakota language and cultural behaviors, Franz Boas had found yet another female anthropologist, perhaps not one with academic degrees but one who offered a unique and emic explanation of Indian people.
Academic text (2018) -
Unless their cultural way of knowing and conceiving of reason is respected and understood in an emic way, it would be presumptuous and imperialistic to presuppose their desire for integration and synthesis.
Academic text (1992) -
The researchers emphasized the importance of an emic perspective when studying local customs to truly understand their meanings.
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Using an emic lens, the study revealed how tribe members interpret their cultural practices in ways that outsiders might overlook.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Emic comes from the ending -emic in the word phonemic, which is about sounds that belong 'inside' a language; a helpful way to remember it is to think of emic as the 'inside' or 'insider' view of a culture, so an emic approach studies things from the community's own point of view.