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The emic view engages descriptions, dialogue and meanings identified by the participant that are important. In the discussion of terrorism, the emic view would be the view of the terrorist. This view may be opposed to the view of those who attempt to understand terrorism.
With terrorism the emic view is particularly important because there may be cultural differences between the terrorist and those who attempt to study terrorism. This difference is even larger is the researcher is from the West. Countries in the West view the actions of terrorists as inherently heinous and "evil." This view often does not give any credence to the meanings that terrorist give to their behavior. Thus the emic view or the insider view is critical to understanding and predicting patterns of terrorism. When the West is understood to the eyes of the "terrorist" existing behaviors and cultural norms are often seen as unacceptable or worse a violation of divine will.
When the researcher engages the emic position the researcher divests themselves of preconceived notions, theories and beliefs about the meaning of behaviors. The researcher allows the data that is collected from the respondent to inform them of what is the existing "reality." When the researcher does this, it permits the inherent patterns and themes within the data become obvious to the researcher. The emic view is central to the development...
With Grounded Theory the theory is built from the field. This approach allows the researcher to identify the context within which the phenomenon exists and to use the context as an explanatory tool.
The etic perspective is an outsider perspective. The etic perspective approaches research from a deductive posture. The outsider is often not aware of the nuance of meaning associated with specific behaviors. The outsider may believe that they are observing behaviors they have seen repeated over time and they may know what the behaviors mean. This view is therefore limited for certain types of research, since the starting point for understanding the phenomenon is the interpretations of the researcher.
The etic perspective allows the researcher to construct hypotheses and to test the underlying concepts as propositions within the theories. The etic perspective will not be useful for understanding terrorism because terrorism is not an adequately theorized phenomenon. The emic is more useful because the nature of the phenomenon is such that an exploratory framework is required to understand the phenomenon. Additionally, it would be near impossible to implement deductive approaches to terrorism. Thus the emic view provides the context for the behavior and allows the researcher to understand the meanings that are associated with terrorist actions.
This way one gets the information easily, and they will not be withholding any information. As an insider one is also comfortably able to observe and interact with the informants in their natural environment, and this gives another deep insight to the research. There may be some challenges that one would face as an insider e.g. The informants may presume some questions that are asked to be simple and the
American culture. One of the most curious aspects of American culture to residents of other industrialized democracies is the American attitude towards freedom, as currently expressed in the healthcare debate. Americans have articulated a great deal of hostility about being 'forced' to buy health insurance, despite the fact that 1. National and state government-run programs already exist in the form of Medicare and Medicaid and 2. Healthcare is a necessity.
ethnological investigation and analysis, is centered on cultural and religious activity in a contemporary community situation. Essentially, the aim of this research was to observe various cultural and social behavior patterns as they pertain to religion and spirituality in society. Two faiths were observed over a period of time. A Western religious faith such as Catholicism was compared to an Eastern faith such as Buddhism. This topic was chosen for
Introduction Cultural competency is currently taken for granted in nursing theory and practice. However, cultural competency was not always normative. Madeline Leininger was the first nursing theorist, practitioner, and scholar to distinguish transcultural nursing as a unique means of providing top quality of care. The underlying principle of transcultural nursing, also known as ethnonursing, is applying anthropological and sociological principles to nursing practice. Contemporary nursing practice is culturally competent at its
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