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. From Wordnik.com. [Questioning Transphobia] Reference
Thus learning is a matter of enskillment rather than enculturation. From Wordnik.com. [Sterile secular view of life is losing “certainty” making way for a sane and salutary stance] Reference
Education has always been as much about enculturation as anything else. From Wordnik.com. [William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Meaning of Islam] Reference
Often these influences act subconsciously by a process of socialization or enculturation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
To eyeball: Schools, public or private, are one part education and four parts enculturation. From Wordnik.com. [More on Sarah Palin, Moose Hunting, and Other Stuff] Reference
Most of us are products of our own enculturation unless we make a concious effort to remain objective. From Wordnik.com. [im 14 and whats the deal with videogame companys that are making games about hunting.] Reference
Cleophas said, “We have been a pioneering center – especially in religious dialogue and enculturation.”. From Wordnik.com. [ACN News - A time for healing in India - Orissa] Reference
I hear that it kind of depends on your particular neighborhood and the enculturation of the kids and parents there. From Wordnik.com. [Two good San Miguel web resources, and Day of the Dead] Reference
Alexander consciously encouraged enculturation of all of his conquered peoples to the Greek ways of speaking, thinking and doing. From Wordnik.com. [How Globalism Materially Corrupts and Eviscerates Spirituality (Part 1)] Reference
Therefore we will have for sometime, the added burden of enhanced educational resources being devoted to facilitate their enculturation. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Trade Case, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Or are we to assume that a variety of factors, such as assimilation, education, enculturation, and wealth, levelled out the IQ discrepancy?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture”] Reference
But I figured, enculturation is probably one of the worst reasons for silence there is, and the whole point of the week is to raise awareness, so!. From Wordnik.com. [Today's grab-bag anti-bigotry links] Reference
Games are intellectually rich, collaborative problem solving, literacy practices, and enculturation into practices and perspectives shift toward participatory consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: Privacy is More About Control than About Content] Reference
This thread reminds me of the value of apprenticeships with regard to their role in combining watching, doing, enculturation, reflection, development all all these different forms of knowing and learning. From Wordnik.com. [If you haven't practiced, you haven't learned anything] Reference
This means that, from an ethnographer's point of view, the same process of enculturation can be followed, with the right training, by a researcher in order to develop a reliable picture of that cultural point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Anti Anti-Anecdotalism] Reference
The nature-nurture debate is the perennial dispute over the relative strength of innate biological makeup (nature), on the one hand, and enculturation, socialization, and other forms of learning (nurture), on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Relativism] Reference
I would bet, in fact, that the enculturation process by which people are taught to be more open-minded or more close-minded produces just such neurological differences, such different habitual patterns of how the brain gets used. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology (or Is It?) of Political Orientation] Reference
It is a psychological experience of adults during the time of cultural adjustment that accompanies a period of cultural socialization or acculturation (which is different from the enculturation process experienced by small children). From Wordnik.com. [Culture Shock Travelling] Reference
Isn't school and socialist enculturation mandatory now?. From Wordnik.com. [Cafe Hayek] Reference
There must be enculturation, a process of passing it on continuously. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to the Frontpage] Reference
Through enculturation, the wandering bands of people adapted to a more settled life. From Wordnik.com. [Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference
It eliminates any prospect of Americans escaping from their enculturation with Israeli propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
We have reason to believe socialization or enculturation might have a kind of sensitive period effect. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
It eliminates any prospect of Americans escaping from their enculturation with Israeli propaganda. hyperbola. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Some Africans resisted this forcible enculturation process, but out of survival many became inculcated within a system of white supremacy. From Wordnik.com. [Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free] Reference
Education is of course extremely important, but a major goal in the Hasidic community is group enculturation rather than imparting subject matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis] Reference
During the Battle of Talas River in 751, some Chinese paper makers were captured by the Arabs and this is how paper making came to be known to the world, by a process of enculturation. From Wordnik.com. [BULS] Reference
Resistance to enculturation: "Of all of them it may be said that in a certain profound and meaningful sense they resist enculturation and maintain a certain inner detachment from the culture in which they are immersed.". From Wordnik.com. [Writing on Air] Reference
Both enculturation and bodily experience could potentially explain the 'good is right' mapping shown here in right-handers 'gestures, but only bodily factors can account for the' good is left 'mapping found in left-handers' gestures. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
As a result of centuries of enculturation, millions of poor, illiterate women all over the globe believe that they have been predestined to be secondary beings, married to men who are their infallible masters and who can treat them like cattle or worse. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
It wasn’t until then that I appreciated regional influences of my enculturation. From Wordnik.com. [Science, Education & Society: Culture as a factor in Classism] Reference
Such are the hazards of enculturation. From Wordnik.com. [dustbury.com » You probably knew this] Reference
Using African languages enables ‘enculturation’. From Wordnik.com. [Mzungu! Mzungu!: an appeal for vulnerable western missionaries to Africa] Reference
Demographics and the Family – birth, life, death, marriage, kinship, socialization, enculturation, etc. Community, Culture and Ethnicity – tribal groups, etc. Government, Law, Justice, Security. From Wordnik.com. [Transformation and Resilience] Reference
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