The process by which people acquire their own culture is:

a. called enculturation.
b. genetically based.
c. more rapid in industrialized societies than in less technologically developed ones.
d. slowest in industrialized societies and most rapid in less technologically developed ones.
e. called pluralism and results in pluralistic societies.


a

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