| LC control no. | sh 85000442 |
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| LC classification | GN366 Anthropology HM841 Sociology |
| Topical heading | Acculturation |
| Variant(s) | Culture contact (Acculturation) Development education |
| See also | subdivision Cultural assimilation under ethnic groups Civilization Culture Ethnology Assimilation (Sociology) Cultural fusion |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on cultural change caused by prolonged contact between social groups, leading to a change in one or both cultures. Works on the often unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of elements of a minority culture by members of a dominant culture are entered under Cultural appropriation. Works on the absorption of a minority group into the culture, values, and social behaviors of the dominant culture are entered under Assimilation (Sociology) |
| Subject example tracing | Notes under Cultural appropriation; Assimilation (Sociology) |
| Found in | Merriam Webster online, June 12, 2018: def. 1 (cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture; also, a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact) Encyclopedia of diversity and social justice via Credo online, June 12, 2018: acculturation (the process by which outsiders -- both ethnic groups as a whole and individual members of those groups -- adapt to mainstream culture and structure of a society; the adapting groups or individuals may be newcomers or internally marginalized subordinate groups; in recent years, the prevailing use of the word ahs been to describe acculturation as essentially a one-directional process; the newcomers adapt to the mainstream; according to this traditional view, the mainstream remains basically unchanged) Columbia encyclopedia, 2017, via Credo online, June 12, 2018: acculturation (culture changes resulting from contact among various societies over time; may have distinct results, such as the borrowing of certain traits by one culture from another, or the relative fusion of separate cultures) |
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