Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to acculturation: Describes something that pertains to or is characteristic of the process of acculturation, which is the cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The study focused on the acculturational stress experienced by immigrant families.
  • Anthropologists examined the acculturational patterns between the two neighboring societies.

Advanced Usage

• "Acculturational process": Refers specifically to the ongoing dynamics and stages of cultural change and adaptation.
  • The research paper maps the acculturational process over three generations.

Variants and Related Words

• Acculturation (n): The process of cultural change and psychological change that results following meeting between cultures.
• Acculturative (adj): A less common variant, essentially synonymous with .
• Acculturate (v): To assimilate or cause to assimilate a different culture, typically the dominant one.

Synonyms

• Cultural-adaptive: Pertaining to adaptation to a culture.
• Assimilative: Related to the process of absorbing and integrating into a culture.

Notes on Meaning

This is a specialized academic adjective derived directly from the noun acculturation. Its use is almost exclusively found in sociological, anthropological, and psychological contexts to describe phenomena, studies, stress, or models related to cultural change and adaptation.

Adjective

1. of or relating to acculturation