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enculturation

enculturation

1 9.3
Learning a culture's values and ways, often starting in childhood
  • noun
  • /ɪnˌkʌl.tʃəˈreɪ.ʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : aculturación
  • Schools often facilitate enculturation by introducing students to the local customs and social norms.
  • enculturation process
  • enculturation of the young

Well, they are the product of this sort of immersion and enculturation.

Examples

  • Children learn important values and behaviors through the process of enculturation as they grow up.

  • By comparison, when one travels to another country, the level of cultural contrast is lessened due to enculturation.

    Academic text (2008)

  • When writing and written religion are introduced, relationships of enculturation are altered.

    Academic text (2001)

  • All human beings are subject to processes of enculturation that work on them to accept the premises into which they are born.

    Academic text (1990)

  • However, enculturation is more of a blending of two different cultures, such that the individual may be bicultural.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Learning happens seamlessly as part of an enculturation process as the learner moves from the periphery to a more central position in the community.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Finally, the conservative culture promotes enculturation, attitudes, and interactions that complement its CMW paradigm.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Children's literature can also provide positive enculturation for preservice teachers and validation for inservice teachers of the possibilities inherent in their social contributions.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The family's traditions played a significant role in the enculturation of the new generations.

Synonyms

socialization
vsenculturation
  • US
9 4.7

Learning the ways and rules of a group or society

emphasizes specific culture values and early life learning rather than general society norms
internalization
vsenculturation
  • Specialized
2 7.7

The process of making beliefs or ways of behaving part of a person's thinking and actions

is a social learning process of culture rather than only inner personal acceptance
inculturation
vsenculturation
  • Specialized
9.2

The process of learning and taking on the customs and values of a community

is focused on a gradual childhood process within a particular culture

Antonyms

disconnection
9 4.2

Being separate from people, things, or contact, for example losing internet

deviance
4 7.9

Behavior that most people in a group do not accept

How Integrated

assimilation
19 5.7
enculturation
  • Specialized
1 9.3
socialization
  • US
9 4.7
exposure
295 3.5

Surface Forms

enculturation singular
enculturations plural

Morphology

enculturation = enculturate (transparent) = en + culture + ation

Formed by the verb 'enculturate' plus the noun-forming suffix '-ation', meaning 'the process or result of enculturating' which is a predictable nominalization.

Etymology

The word enculturation is built from en- 'in' and culture, which comes from a word meaning 'to care for' or 'grow' and is like the common word cultivate. So, enculturation is the slow process of being put 'into' a culture and learning its ways, values, and habits.