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acculturation
has definitions from the fields of sociology,psychology,education
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[ noun ] (sociology) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
Synonyms Examples "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)And acculturation into the world at_large is likely to occur for the Brooklyn_College student after college rather_than during the four school_years . Related terms social_control breeding cultivation acculturate socialize socialize |
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[ noun ] all the knowledge and values shared by a society
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[ noun ] (psychology,education) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
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