Acculturation Synonyms

ə-kŭlchə-rāshən
The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. socialization
  2. culture
  3. socialisation
  4. enculturation
The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. assimilation
  2. americanization
  3. nationalization
  4. trait-complex

Words Related to Acculturation

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Acculturation Sentence Examples

  • Post-contact material is genuine Indian work more or less influenced by acculturation.

  • Martins discusses acculturation in Sortilege (Black Mystery ), drawing on the script of this play that was first performed in 1957.

  • He is researching acculturation through personal ornamentation in the north of Roman Britain.

  • Here also bewildering products of ancient metallurgy tax the imagination as to the processes involved, and questions of acculturation also interfere with true scientific results.

  • There is another meaning, however -- one social scientists call acculturation.

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