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Enculturation
noun
The process by which an individual adopts the behaviour patterns of the culture in which he or she is immersed.
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In this sense, it is equivalent to what social scientists term socialization or enculturation.
The term education can be applied to primitive cultures only in the sense of enculturation, which is the process of cultural transmission.
Part of the whole enculturation and socialization process is learning that it's also cool and empowering to build something.
In comparison with art music, which brings aesthetic enjoyment, and popular music, which (often along with social dancing) functions as entertainment, folk music is more often associated with other activities, such as calendric or life-cycle rituals, work, games, enculturation, and folk religion; folk music is also more likely to be participatory than presentational.
Other common genres are work songs, love and other lyrical songs, songs to accompany games, lullabies, and children's songs for enculturation (e.g., alphabet songs, proverbs, and riddles).
But I wish she had pointed out that one's particular religious beliefs are almost always determined by one's parents, in a process of enculturation that has little to do with thought, choice or revelation.
Here Dasein's beginning (its 'birth') is to be interpreted not as a biological event, but as a moment of enculturation, following which the a priori structure underlying intelligibility (thrown projection plus falling/discourse) applies.
So paideia included education in the arts, philosophy and rhetoric, history, science, and mathematics; training in sports and warfare; enculturation or learning of the city's religious, social, political, and professional customs and training to participate in them; and the development of one's moral character through the virtues.
Caring for a child imposes a set of demands for preservation (survival), growth (development into a healthy adult), and acceptability (enculturation that ensures fitting into a community) (Ruddick 1989).
Historizing is an a priori structure of Dasein's Being as care that constitutes a stretching along between Dasein's birth as the entity that takes-as and death as its end, between enculturation and finitude.
Boas's views became the orthodoxy of anthropology through M. J. Herskovits' "principle of cultural relativism" stating: "Judgments are based on experience, and experience is interpreted by each individual in terms of his own enculturation" (Herskovits 1955 15).
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