Etic vs Metic - What's the difference?
etic | metic |
(social sciences) Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
* 1996 , Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention
In ancient Greece, a resident alien who did not have citizen rights and who paid a tax for the right to live there.
As an adjective etic
is of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.As a noun metic is
in ancient Greece, a resident alien who did not have citizen rights and who paid a tax for the right to live there.etic
English
(Emic and etic)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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 '''etic'''s 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 ' emic s exist, for European Americans the waves may be sources of beauty — the Truk Islander has learned to use them […] as a road map.
