Concept information
Preferred term
assimilation
Definition
- Assimilation refers to that result of culture change whereby the members of one society modify their behavior and values to become very similar to, or identical with, those of another society possessing a different culture. It is to be distinguished from the potentially rapid processes of culture change due to internal innovation and invention and external borrowing through intermittent diffusion of culture elements from outside the society, and the very gradual process by the absence of exact replication by a younger generation of the beliefs and behavior of an older generation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Assimilation]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/assimilation
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