enculturation ([Th]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [Th] The processes of becoming knowledgeable and competent in one's culture. In contrast to socialization, which usually applies to the childhood years, enculturation continues throughout a person's...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... 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 socialization. Sport can play a major role in enculturation...
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Dictionary of the Social Sciences
... The process of learning and incorporating basic cultural roles, knowledge, and beliefs, generally during childhood. Enculturation is central to the work of Melville J. Herskovits , who distinguished it from acculturation , in which the learning involves contact between cultures. Herskovits gave the term several additional inflections, using it to refer to the process of conscious adaptation to social change and thereby distinguishing it from the process of socialization embodied in formal systems of social integration, such as...
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A Dictionary of Sports Studies
... US cultural anthropology has used the term to refer to the learning processes whereby an individual becomes a full member of a group, culture , or subculture . The term refers to the same process that sociologists call socialization . Enculturation can involve formal inductions into the culture, for instance registering as the member of a sports club on the basis of an understanding of documented rules, and informal knowledge acquisition, such as following non-verbal cues or picking up the argot (the specialist language) of the sport and sport...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
... A term from American cultural anthropology that is virtually synonymous with socialization . It refers to the idea that, to be a full member of any culture or subculture , individuals have constantly to learn and use, both formally and informally, the patterns of cultural behaviour prescribed by that...
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A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology
...enculturation The process of learning the cultural rules and social patterns of a society. Although enculturating processes are involved in all stages of life, the most intensive periods are associated with childhood. The concept was an important one within the culture and personality school, due to that group’s focus on cross-cultural childrearing practices. Beyond childhood, enculturating processes might be involved in rites of passage , diverse forms of adult training, and changes in culturally recognized phases of life....
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acculturation
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
.... Acculturation is frequently invoked in the context of immigration, where the cultural and linguistic practices of the dominant culture exercise a powerful normative influence upon newcomers. Acculturation can include exchanges between generations, although the terms enculturation and socialization are more commonly used in these...
acculturation Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
...some or all of another's culture. Many argue that sport makes a major contribution to acculturation. This is possibly one reason for financial support of national teams by governments. 2 Any transmission of culture between groups, including different generations. See also enculturation , socialization...
socialization Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... ( enculturation ) A complex process by which individuals learn skills, attitudes, values, and patterns of behaviour that enable them to function within a particular culture. These patterns are learned from agencies such as school and home. Socialization enables members of a society to interact with one another and so pass on skills, values, beliefs, knowledge, and modes of behaviour pertaining to that society. Sport is generally regarded as playing a significant role in...
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
...1. ( enculturation ) Broadly, both formal and informal processes by which individuals adapt to the behavioural norms and values in a culture and learn to perform established social roles , acquiring many largely unconscious biases . A distinction is often made between primary socialization —learning attitudes , values, and appropriate individual behaviour, largely through family and schooling in childhood, and secondary socialization —learning by youths and adults of appropriate group behaviour, e.g. in occupational socialization. See...
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A Dictionary of Sports Studies
...taking up sport later in life when they had not participated in it earlier. Socialization is a central sociological category, but it must be understood alongside the analysis of socially determining influences such as social class , gender , and ethnicity . See also enculturation...
