acculturate

Examples of acculturate in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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. "