The difference between Acculturation and Civilization
When used as nouns, acculturation means a process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one, whereas civilization means an organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people.
Civilization is also proper_noun with the meaning: collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the civilised world.
check bellow for the other definitions of Acculturation and Civilization
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Acculturation as a noun:
A process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one.
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Acculturation as a noun:
A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that he/she inhabits, starting at birth.
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Civilization as a noun:
An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.
Examples:
"the Aztec civilization'"
"Western civilization'"
"Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization."
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Civilization as a noun (uncountable):
Human society, particularly civil society.
Examples:
"A hermit doesn't much care for civilization."
"I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family."
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Civilization as a noun:
The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
Examples:
"The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task."
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Civilization as a noun:
The state or quality of being civilized.
Examples:
"He was a man of great civilization."
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Civilization as a noun (obsolete):
The act of rendering a criminal process civil.