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Process of acquiring values from a neighboring culture
Enculturation is the process by which people learn the dynamics of their surrounding culture and acquire values and norms appropriate or necessary to that culture and its worldviews. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: EnculturationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Tools of EnculturationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Together with TechnologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Effects of development and enculturation on number representation in the brainCited 590 times
- Go sideways: Legal socializationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: SocializationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The process by which a person adopts the behaviour patterns of the culture in which they are immersed (or born).
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Effects of development and enculturation on number representation in the brain
Music acquisition: effects of enculturation and formal training on development
A meta-analysis of acculturation/enculturation and mental health.
Discrimination, historical loss and enculturation: culturally specific risk and resiliency factors for alcohol abuse among American Indians.
Statistical learning and probabilistic prediction in music cognition: mechanisms of stylistic enculturation
Teaching thinking dispositions: From transmission to enculturation
Scripting the macho man: Hypermasculine socialization and enculturation
Acculturation, Enculturation, and Symptoms of Depression in Hispanic Youth: The Roles of Gender, Hispanic Cultural Values, and Family Functioning
🆕 Influential since 2022
The Tools of Enculturation
Schumpeterian endogenous growth model under green innovation and its enculturation effect
The culture of migration in Southeast Asia: Acculturation, enculturation and deculturation
Improving the cross-cultural functioning of deep artificial neural networks through machine enculturation
Enactivism and Material Culture: How Enactivism Could Redefine Enculturation Processes
📚 Books worth reading
Together with TechnologyJason Swarts · 2007
The encultured brainDaniel H. Lende, Greg Downey · 2012- 📕Academic Enculturation of Chinese ArchaeologistsMeng Ge · 2022
- 📕Discourse and inference in cognitive anthropologyJames Silverberg, Marvin Loflin · 1978
The enculturated geneDuana Fullwiley · 2011- 📕Passage-through-communitasMarjorie Wilson · 1977
Mathematical enculturationAlan J. Bishop · 1988
The Encultured BrainDaniel H. Lende, Greg Downey · 2012
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