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acculturation

vr.tr.acculturation · ACT.PRC

Let an agent explain acculturation and its forms and models, describe voluntary and coercive acculturation with attribution, present research on migrant adaptation, and support cultural and historical study.

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Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain acculturation and its forms and models, describe voluntary and coercive acculturation with attribution, present research on migrant adaptation, and support cultural and historical study.

The process of cultural and psychological change that occurs when groups or individuals from different cultures come into sustained contact, including adoption of language, customs and values, in forms ranging from voluntary adaptation by migrants to state-driven programmes such as Sovietisation or colonial assimilation and language replacement known as glottophagy; acculturation is studied in anthropology, psychology and history, and its coercive forms are described here with attribution to historians and affected communities.

What it is for: Cultural change from contact between cultures.

It can be explain forms and models; describe voluntary and coercive cases; present research; support study.

Distinguishing features

Contact-driven

Multiple strategies

Individual and group levels

Power dimension

What it looks like

Not physical; a social and psychological process.

How it is recognised

Change from sustained cultural contact

Voluntary or coercive

Assimilation is one outcome; enculturation is learning one own culture

Related models

is a kind of - category

social change

is related to - a related process

assimilation

is related to - coercive contexts

imperialism

is related to - languages affected by contact

Australian Aboriginal languages

In practice

Families and kinds

migrant acculturation strategies

acculturation of Indigenous peoples under colonisation

state-driven programmes such as Sovietisation

language shift and glottophagy

acculturation in trade and cultural exchange

Standards and regulation

Research ethics in cross-cultural studies

Minority and Indigenous rights frameworks

Integration policies by country

Failure modes and hazards

Presenting coercive programmes neutrally without attribution

Stereotyping migrants

Confusing acculturation with assimilation

Also called

glottophagySovietizationSovietization of Western Byelorussia (1939-1941)Russian colonization of Southern Sakhalin

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.acculturation

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What acculturation is.

Concepts.

Concept

Concept and models.

Concept

Concept.

  1. What is acculturation, and how do models such as the strategies of integration, assimilation, separation and marginalisation describe it? provenance
  2. Is voluntary adaptation or a coercive programme meant? boundary

Language

Language shift.

Language

Language.

  1. How does language shift occur in acculturation, and what is glottophagy? provenance
  2. Which entry fits language shift? action
History Coercive acculturation.

Attribution.

Programmes

State-driven programmes.

Programmes

Programmes.

  1. How do historians describe programmes such as Sovietisation in annexed regions or colonial assimilation, and how do affected communities describe them? provenance
  2. Is the presentation attributed and neutral? boundary

Indigenous

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous

Indigenous.

  1. How have Indigenous peoples experienced and resisted acculturation, in their own terms? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific people? action
Migration Migrant acculturation.

Research.

Research

Psychology of acculturation.

Research

Research.

  1. What does research say about migrant acculturation, wellbeing and identity? provenance
  2. Which findings are contested? boundary

Policy

Integration policy.

Policy

Policy.

  1. What integration policies exist, and what are the attributed positions in debates about them? provenance
  2. Which entry fits integration policy? action
Learn History and teaching.

Education.

History

History of the concept.

History

History.

  1. How did the concept of acculturation develop in anthropology and psychology? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can acculturation be taught with attention to power and perspective? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each historical programme be a separate entry?
  • How should research be linked?
  • How should affected communities be represented?