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What does enculturation mean?

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Noun
  1. The process by which an individual adopts the behaviour patterns of the culture in which he or she is immersed.
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This is so as well for the Veblenian strand of institutional economics that stresses enculturation of economic behaviour.
Allen is worried by the alien character of much in the young churches and is concerned that real enculturation has yet to take place.
Chun points out that the Chinese meaning of education revolves around enculturation and socialisation.
Among the psychosocial variables, both enculturation and acculturation did not have any significant effect on the internalizing problems.
This voice, strongest in the universities, is hostile to America and works against enculturation of its youth in traditional American values.
They define themselves through the processes of socialization and enculturation characteristics of their disciplinary areas.

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