Assimilation vs. Socialization — What's the Difference?

The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas

In sociology, socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society. Socialization encompasses both learning and teaching and is thus "the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained".Socialization is strongly connected to developmental psychology.

The absorption and digestion of food or nutrients by the body or any biological system

To place under government or group ownership or control

The process of becoming similar to something

To cause to accept or behave in accordance with social norms or expectations

The act or process of assimilating.

To take part in social activities

The state of being assimilated.

The process of learning how to live in a way acceptable to one's own society, said especially about children.

(Physiology) The conversion of nutriments into living tissue; constructive metabolism.

The act of interacting with others, of being social.

(Linguistics) The process by which a sound is modified so that it becomes similar or identical to an adjacent or nearby sound. For example, the prefix in- becomes im- in impossible by assimilation to the labial p of possible.

Taking under government control as implementing socialism.

The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.

The action of establishing on a socialist basis;

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

The act of meeting for social purposes;

The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture;

(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

(phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.

The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.

The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.

The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance