acculturation

Examples of acculturation in the following topics:

• Acculturation problems when buying companies

  • Growth as a result of acquiring companies in the supply chain, or diversifying into other sectors not only creates the potential for mistakes due to inadequate knowledge of the industry, but by insufficient acculturation of the companies acquired.
  • The confrontation between two or more incompatible firm cultures makes acculturation essential.
  • There are three different acculturation strategies to choose from.
  • Doing without acculturation strategies not only stunts growth, but also increases the risk of bankruptcy.

• Social Class

  • Because individuals' social networks tend to be within their own class, they acculturate to, or learn the values and behaviors of, their own class.
  • Due to class mobility, in some cases individuals may also acculturate to the culture of another class when ascending or descending in the social order.

• Mechanisms of Cultural Change

  • Additionally, cultural ideas may transfer from one society to another, through diffusion or acculturation.
  • Acculturation has different meanings, but in this context it refers to replacement of the traits of one culture with those of another, such has happened to certain Native American tribes and to many indigenous peoples across the globe during the process of colonization.

• Cultural Change

  • Contact between cultures can also result in acculturation.
  • Acculturation has different meanings, but in this context refers to replacement of the traits of one culture with those of another (through force, negotiation, and / or agreement), such as what happened with many Native American Indians as Europeans took over their lands.
  • Many Native Americans were acculturated into European norms, beliefs, and values, from religion to how to raise children because Europeans believed Natives could not adopt these cultural practices.

• Masks in the Kalabari Kingdom

  • The Ijaw are also known to practice ritual acculturation, whereby an individual from a different and unrelated group undergoes rites to become Ijaw.

• Slave Religion

  • Blassingame concludes that cross-cultural exchanges occurred on southern plantations, arguing that "acculturation in the United States involved the mutual interaction between two cultures, with Europeans and Africans borrowing from each other. " Blassingame asserts that the most significant instance revolved around Protestant Christianity (primarily Baptist and Methodist churches): "The number of blacks who received religious instruction in antebellum white churches is significant because the church was the only institution other than the plantation which played a major role in acculturating the slave. " Christianity and enslaved black ministers represented another aspect of slave culture which the slaves used to create their own communities.

• Employee Selection

  • The term selection can be applied to many aspects of the process, such as recruitment, hiring, and acculturation.

• Summary and references

  • Buying out entire companies is also suitable as a growth strategy, but it presupposes the availability of sufficient capital, and the solution of acculturation problems.

• Social Class in the U.S.

  • Because individuals' social networks tend to be within their own class, they acculturate to, or learn the values and behaviors of, their own class.
  • Due to class mobility, in some cases, individuals may also acculturate to the culture of another class when ascending or descending in the social order.

• Culture

  • This process of learning culture is called "acculturation. "