Anthropologists study how differently positioned people think, and the influences on their thinking. When anthropologists describe an emic viewpoint, they are describing
how the people they study see the world.
what they think causes social divisions in a community.
In 2018, US EPA scientists published an article in the American Journal of Public Health that found that communities living below the poverty line have a 35 percent higher burden from particulate matter emissions than the overall population; Non-whites had a 28 percent higher health burden; African Americans had a 54 percent higher burden than the overall population. This is an example of
emic perspective
environmental injustice
An etic description
examines what influences the way people think and act
conveys how a particular person or stakeholder group perceives the world
An emic description
looks at whether farmers are worried about the health effects of agricultural chemicals
focuses on the ways greenwashing shapes farmers’ perceptions of agricultural chemicals
Anonymous, "Emic + Etic: Check Your Understanding", contributed by , Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 13 November 2024, accessed 4 December 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/emic-etic-check-your-understanding
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Emic + Etic: Check Your Understanding