Etic vs Trackback - What's the difference?
etic | trackback |
(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
(software, Internet, blogging) A protocol for a system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it.
As an adjective etic
is ethical.As a noun trackback is
(uncountable|computing) a method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.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.