{"id":7848,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/enculturation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:18","slug":"enculturation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/enculturation\/","title":{"rendered":"Enculturation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The process of socialization by which children come to internalize the values, practices and knowledge judged to be central by their own (sub-) culture or group. &nbsp;Enculturation, actually a life-long process, occurs both with and without direct teaching or instruction. &nbsp;Also referred to as acculturation, a term introduced by the anthropologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyon-country.com\/lakepowell\/jwpowell.htm\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.canyon-country.com\/lakepowell\/jwpowell.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Wesley Powell<\/a> (1834-1902) in an 1880 report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euriskodata.com\/boe\/boeindex.htm\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.euriskodata.com\/boe\/boeindex.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US Bureau of Ethnography<\/a>, which he defined as the psychological changes induced by cross-cultural imitation. &nbsp;The first psychologist to write about acculturation was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muskingum.edu\/~psych\/psycweb\/history\/hall.htm\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.muskingum.edu\/~psych\/psycweb\/history\/hall.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Granville Stanley Hall<\/a> (1844-1924).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"socialization\">Socialization<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of socialization by which children come to internalize the values, practices and knowledge judged to be central by their own (sub-) culture or group. &nbsp;Enculturation, actually a life-long process, occurs both with and without direct teaching or instruction. &nbsp;Also referred to as acculturation, a term introduced by the anthropologist John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/enculturation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enculturation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}