Emic worldview is the perspective of an insider or native. Etic worldview is the perspective of an outsider.

An emic study is called for when the research aims to understand a cultural group from within, focusing on the group's perspective and values. An etic study is appropriate when the research seeks to compare and analyze different cultures using an outside perspective. The choice between emic and etic approaches depends on the research goals and the level of cultural understanding being sought.

Emic refers to an insider's perspective or understanding of a culture, while etic refers to an outsider's perspective or analysis of that culture. Emic emphasizes the way people within a culture perceive and interpret things, whereas etic focuses on an objective, outsider view of cultural practices and beliefs.

An etic construct is a theoretical idea that is assumed to apply in all cultural groups. An emic construct is one that

applies only in one cultural group. Cultural bias can occur if a researcher assumes that an emic construct is actually

etic. This results in an imposed etic, where a culture-specific idea is wrongly imposed on another culture.

Etic is relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture that is general non-structural and objectives and its perspective. Emic isrelating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or call char in terms of its internal elements and their functioning rather than in terms of any existing external schemes.