{"id":7834,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/emic-etic_distinction\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:09","slug":"emic-etic_distinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/emic-etic_distinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Emic-etic distinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &nbsp;distinction that has played a role in theorising related to cross-cultural psychological research research. &nbsp;Emic refers to a researchstrategy that takes an insider view of a particular culture and starts data collection from theperspectives and reports of participants. &nbsp;The etic approach is a diametrically different strategy in that it aims to examine the extent to which psychological&nbsp; phenomena are universal, and thus it typically emphasizes &nbsp;Western-derived models and instruments that are thentried and tested across a range of contrasting cultures. &nbsp;The distinction was originally made by the linguist &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nap.edu\/read\/10992\/chapter\/16\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.nap.edu\/read\/10992\/chapter\/16?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenneth Pike&nbsp;<\/a>(1912-2000) who derived it from the terms phonemic and phonetic. &nbsp;It was reviewed and further developed by the anthropologist&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Marvin_Harris\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Marvin_Harris?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marvin Harris<\/a>&nbsp;(1927-2001) in a paper published in 1976. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"anthropology\">Anthropology<\/a>, <a href=\"cross-cultural_psychology\">Cross-cultural psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"ethnography\">Ethnography<\/a>, <a href=\"linguistic_anthropology\">Linguistic anthropology<\/a>, <a href=\"psychic_unity_of_mankind\">Psychic unity of mankind<\/a>, <a href=\"relativism_-or_cultural_relativism-\">Relativism (or cultural relativism)<\/a>, <a href=\"universal\">Universal<\/a>, <a href=\"universalism\">Universalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harris, M. (1976). History and significance of the emic-etic distinction. <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Annual Review of Anthropology<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">5<\/span>, 329-350.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &nbsp;distinction that has played a role in theorising related to cross-cultural psychological research research. &nbsp;Emic refers to a researchstrategy that takes an insider view of a particular culture and starts data collection from theperspectives and reports of participants. &nbsp;The etic approach is a diametrically different strategy in that it aims to examine the extent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/emic-etic_distinction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emic-etic distinction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}