noun
definition
A process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one.
definition
A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth.
Examples of acculturation in a Sentence
Post-contact material is genuine Indian work more or less influenced by acculturation.
Martins discusses acculturation in Sortilege (Black Mystery ), drawing on the script of this play that was first performed in 1957.
He is researching acculturation through personal ornamentation in the north of Roman Britain.
Here also bewildering products of ancient metallurgy tax the imagination as to the processes involved, and questions of acculturation also interfere with true scientific results.
There is another meaning, however -- one social scientists call acculturation.