{"id":1514,"date":"2016-10-25T02:13:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/101psych.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2016-10-25T02:13:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:13:10","slug":"emic-and-etic-concepts-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2016\/10\/25\/emic-and-etic-concepts-an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Emic and Etic Concepts: An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>GLT: Using one or more examples, explain &#8220;emic&#8221; and &#8220;etic&#8221; concepts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><u><\/u><\/i><strong>Emic Concepts<\/strong>: Accounts, descriptions and explanations used to understand culturally specific behaviours.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>READ MORE: Key studies and emic concepts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2018\/02\/08\/what-is-an-emic-concept\/\">THIS BLOG POST<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Etic Concepts<\/strong>: An explanation used to understand a culture in scientific terms by comparing the culture to others and addressing the universals of human behaviour.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Levine&#8217;s cross-cultural prosocial behaviour study (2001)<\/li>\n<li>Buss&#8217;s cross-cultural study on mate preference (1989)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>A student made a good suggestion: think of m as being mono and t as being two or more.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLT: Using one or more examples, explain &#8220;emic&#8221; and &#8220;etic&#8221; concepts.\u00a0 Emic Concepts: Accounts, descriptions and explanations used to understand culturally specific behaviours. 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