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What is enculturation?
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Learning and absorbing the norms, values and behaviours of your own culture as you grow up.
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How does enculturation happen?
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Through observation/imitation, direct teaching, and social norms.
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Enculturation vs acculturation?
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Enculturation = your own culture growing up; acculturation = adjusting to a new culture.
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Give an example of enculturation.
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A child learning their culture's table manners by watching, being taught, and being praised.
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Why does our own culture feel 'natural'?
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Because enculturation is absorbed early and rewarded consistently.
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How does enculturation link to ethnocentrism?
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Absorbed norms feel universal, so other cultures' ways can wrongly seem 'odd'.
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One strength of the concept?
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Explains cultural differences in behaviour, with developmental and cross-cultural support.
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One limitation of the concept?
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Hard to measure as one process and to separate from biology; people also resist norms.
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Are people passive during enculturation?
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No — they can question, resist and reshape their culture's norms.
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Which concept does it link to?
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Change — behaviour changes gradually as culture is absorbed.
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