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What does etic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (social sciences) Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
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Court proceedings launched by the Financial Services Authority led to an injunction banning de Dietrich and his company ETIC Solutions from taking any more deposits.
We are acting due the prevailing legal and etic norms.
In ethnographic studies, the orientation of the researcher is termed etic or emic.
Related to the problems of anachronism and ethnocentrism is the distinction between emic and etic terms.
But where emic and etic accounts differ lies the potential for insights into, and explanations for, puzzling human behavior.
For instance, she calls our attention to the distinction, introduced as long ago as 1968 by the German scholar Roland Harweg, between emic and etic openings of narratives.

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