Enculturation

Quick meaning: Enculturation is a noun meaning The process by which a person adopts the behaviour patterns of the culture in which they are immersed (or born).

Meaning

The process by which a person adopts the behaviour patterns of the culture in which they are immersed (or born).

Example Sentences

More specifically, enculturation is the process by which the individual through informal and nonformal modes of cultural transmission learns the language, the technological, socioeconomic, ideational, as well as the cognitive and emotional patterns of culture. It is a lifelong learning process that lasts from an individual’s infancy to adulthood and “which can be said to end only with his death” (ibid., p. 40).

Word Forms

• enculturations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include culturization, inculturation, interculturation, acculturation, culturalization, biculturation.

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