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acculturation

acculturation  

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[Th]Transference of ideas, beliefs, traditions, and sometimes artefacts by long‐term, personal contact and interaction between communities or societies. Adoption through assimilation by prolonged ...
enculturation

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Dictionary of the Social Sciences

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2002
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Social sciences
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The process of learning and incorporating basic cultural roles, knowledge, and beliefs, generally during childhood. Enculturation is central to the

enculturation

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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)

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2007
The process of formally and informally learning and internalizing the prevailing values, and accepted behavioural patterns of a culture. The term is sometimes used synonymously with ... More
Melville J. Herskovits

Melville J. Herskovits  

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(1895 –1963)One of the leading American figures in African anthropology and later in the study of African-American culture. Herskovits's abiding interests were the patterns and processes of ...
socialization

socialization  

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[Ge]The patterns of child‐rearing that serve to endorse behaviours and understandings of the world that are approved of by society.

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