- socialization, socialisation, acculturation, enculturation - the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture"
--1 is a kind of social control
--1 has particulars:cultivation; breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing Derived form: verb acculturate1 - acculturation, culture - all the knowledge and values shared by a society
--2 is a kind of content, cognitive content, mental object
--2 has particulars: meme - acculturation, assimilation - the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
--3 is a kind of education