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acculturation

[uh-kuhl-chuh-rey-shuhn] / əˌkʌl tʃəˈreɪ ʃən /


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Acculturation may be the main reason moviegoers find the sharpness off-putting.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2016

Acculturation, or the transmission of cultural elements from one social group to another, however, has invariably taken place on a larger scale and over a wider area than miscegenation.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

Acculturation: bibliography, 776-77; defined, 135; problems of, 771-72; and tradition, 172; transmission of cultural elements, 737.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

Acculturation is the process by which one group or people learns from another, whether the culture or civilization be gotten by imitation or by inculcation.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra




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