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Theoretical Perspectives on Culture

Culture is way of life shared by people within a community or society. Each perspective have their own approach to study culture. In this article we will discuss the three different approaches to study culture. The three sociological perspective are as follow,...

What is Cultural Assimilation?

Cultural assimilation refers to the process, in which minority culture absorbs into the dominant culture, within a particular society. The process of change in native culture (minority culture) could be gradual or quick; depends on the circumstances. Usually,...

Difference Between Acculturation and Assimilation

When two cultures come into contact with one another, change in culture is inevitable. When two cultures comes in contact with one another, it can go through acculturation or, assimilation. Native culture can completely change and absorb in the host culture, or,...

Difference Between Acculturation and Enculturation

Enculturation refer to the process of learning our own (native) culture, whereas, acculturation is the process of learning and adopting host cultural norms, values and beliefs. Learning native cultural norms and values of a particular society are essential for an...

Enculturation

Enculturation is the process through which people learn the respective culture of society. The process of learning initiate since our conception and continue until death. Since conception we socialize in distinct social groups and interact with different people....

What is Acculturation?

Acculturation can be define as the changes or modification which takes place n the culture by getting influenced and adopting the characteristics of another culture.The other definition of acculturation is that when an individual or group accepts the values of...
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