Enculturation is the process by which culture is transmitted from one generation to the next through various social institutions like family, school, church, and media. It enables individuals to adapt to the prevailing cultural patterns of their society by acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values. Key agents of enculturation include family from an early age, as well as schools which transmit cultural heritage through subjects like history and religion. Individuals learn appropriate behaviors by observing members of their own culture.

1. Mercy Barbie B. Sabandal
Presenter

3. Enculturation is the first function of the
schoolsystem with reference to society. It is also
the function of education which enables pupils and
students to adapt to the prevailing cultural
patterns of society. This is often called the
transmission of cultural heritage or social heritage.
To make it more comprehensible, it is a
process in which culture is passed from generation
to generation.

4. -starts in the presence of a social distance
between the transmitter and the receiver.
Example:
As soon as individual is born he/she
begins to acquire the culture around
him/her .

5. To expound more, first, there is the presentation of
the cultural heritage by the one who transmits it to the
recipient. This is followed by an interaction between the
transmitter and the receiver.
Anyone can transfer culture from direct family to
even not relative as long as you belong with the same
culture. Every individual gives an impact and has already
part of being who you are as a person.

6. Family
School
Church
Mass media
Government

7. • Most influential among the agencies is the
family as it is the go-between of the child
since early childhood and the outside society.
• Most important agency is the school as it is
carried out in a planned and formal way.
Specific subjects in the curriculum directly serve the purpose of
the transmission of cultural heritage as religion and history.

8. In the school, it could be stated with
reference to transmission of cultural
heritage that:
1. at elementary level, there is much reliance of pupils on teachers and
only little self-reliance. At graduate level, there is little dependence of
students on professors and much self-reliance;
2. the person who receives the transmission is sometimes considered
with antipathy or as immature. Initiation rites in fraternities and
sororities attest to this;
3. there is a hierarchy between those who receive cultural heritage,
and those who transmit it;
4. the interiorization and acceptance of the culture of a group in
sometimes accompanied with external pressure e.g. in the army;
5. the mother language is interiorized, so that it is easy to speak the
mother tongue.

9. • Christian parents who are teaching their kids to say the rosary.
• A child learning a good habit of not stealing anything from
anyone in school.
• Ana learned appropriate behaviors from observing her
family, friends, fellow church members, and other individuals
in her society.

10. • Individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and
values that enable them to become functioning
members of their society.
• Through enculturation, we learn what behaviors, values,
language, and morals are acceptable in our society. We
learn by observing other members of our society,
including our parents, friends, teachers, and mentors.