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enculturation - definition and meaning
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noun behaviour patterns of the culture in which he or she is immersed
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While socialization refers to the general process of acquiring culture, anthropologists use the term enculturation for the process of being socialized to a particular culture.
Questioning Transphobia 2008
During the hour I spend in her company, she evangelises not about her own religion, but what she calls "enculturation and inclusiveness", and programmes and schemes aimed at drawing the locals together.
The Guardian World News John Harris 2011
What I find interesting about this and other viral marketing campaigns is related more to the synchronization of human behavior and the enculturation of certain normative behaviors.
Discourse.net: Privacy is More About Control than About Content 2010
In retrospect, it appears we required a developed and reflexive feminist, gay and transgendered global vision to see through the prejudice governing sexuality, gender, ethnicity and the legislative restraints that paternally impose on enculturation and self-identification.
G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler G. Roger Denson 2011
Or are we to assume that a variety of factors, such as assimilation, education, enculturation , and wealth, levelled out the IQ discrepancy?
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
Most of us are products of our own enculturation unless we make a concious effort to remain objective.
im 14 and whats the deal with videogame companys that are making games about hunting. 2010
In retrospect, it appears we required a developed and reflexive feminist, gay and transgendered global vision to see through the prejudice governing sexuality, gender, ethnicity and the legislative restraints that paternally impose on enculturation and self-identification.
G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler G. Roger Denson 2011
Through enculturation , the wandering bands of people adapted to a more settled life.
The Real Truth about the European Monarchy | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
Education and other forms of enculturation are a way of endowing one of your selves social capital, so that it can prevail more frequently in that intimate contest for self-command.
Education Signaling: Is Entrepreneurship a Solution?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
Most of us are products of our own enculturation unless we make a concious effort to remain objective.
im 14 and whats the deal with videogame companys that are making games about hunting. 2010
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