Reflection Activity
1. Define the emic and etic perspectives. Describe a situation, when, as a practitioner, you might find yourself engaged in a situation that would call for you to act within an emic perspective. What might concern you about this process?
2. Discuss the difficulty involved in balancing the emic and etic perspectives and how qualitative researchers attempt to achieve that balance. Suppose you are engaged in a research project in which you elect to use an emic perspective to gather data, and then you return to your “regular” life to process and interpret the data for your study. What feelings do you think you might encounter, looking back? Comment on how those feelings might impact your research perspective.
3. Describe a potential research project you would be interested in conducting that would employ grounded theory methods. Explain how you would approach this project, and why grounded theory is suitable for the research in question.
