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What is the emic (insider) perspective?
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Understanding behaviour from inside a culture, on its own terms and meanings.
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What is the etic (outsider) perspective?
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Studying behaviour from outside, comparing across cultures with general categories.
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What is ethnocentrism?
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Judging another culture by your own culture's standards, treating yours as the norm.
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Emic or etic?
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Emic: from the inside, for meaning. Etic: from the outside, for comparison.
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Give an example of ethnocentrism.
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Calling a culture's customs "backward" just because they differ from your own.
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Risk of using only an outsider (etic) view?
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You may miss local meaning and slip into ethnocentrism.
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Risk of using only an insider (emic) view?
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It becomes hard to compare across cultures.
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Why can a test built in one culture mislead elsewhere?
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Its questions assume one culture's norms, so others are judged by the wrong standards.
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How can ethnocentrism be reduced in research?
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Combine outside comparison with inside understanding, and adapt measures to local meaning.
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Insider or outsider researcher?
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An insider is trusted and understands meanings, but takes things for granted. An outsider notices more, but may misread.
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How do many Indigenous views of well-being differ from the Western one?
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They look at a person's ties to family, community, land and ancestors, not only at the individual.
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What does research with a community mean?
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The community helps to plan the research, agrees to it, and benefits from it.
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