Ethnographic research focuses on:
a. gathering data about lived experiences of individuals.
b. trying to understand cultures from an emic perspective.
c. the use of etic perspectives in studying individual human behavior.
d. the use of techniques of bracketing and intuiting.
ANS: B
The emic approach involves studying behaviors from within a culture.
Phenomenological research attempts to capture the "lived experience" of study participants. The emic approach involves studying behaviors from within a culture.
The etic perspective studies behaviors from outside the culture and examines similarities and differences across cultures. (The emic approach involves studying behaviors from within a culture.) The ethnographic approach looks at groups, not individual behaviors.
Bracketing and intuiting are techniques used rather than the focus of a study. The emic approach involves studying behaviors from within a culture.
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