The word endoculturation derives from the Greek meaning "within" and comes from the Latin "culture", its lexical component is the suffix "tion" which is "action and effect". The enculturation or acculturation is the development of cultural transfer that passes from one generation to another and is based primarily on the control that the older generation who exercises on ways to reward and punish children. Each of the generations reprogram them not only to replicate the behavior of the previous generation. the enculturationThey also reward behavior that fits the model of their endoculturation experience and punish or at least not reward behavior that is not allowed within this area.
The endoculturation of people in the first years of their life, is the main mechanism found within the establishment of their cultural stability, the creators combine the role of the adult generation in the development of endoculturation and say that other children and older youth that the child in question exercises a powerful cultural domain.
This interprets the existence of generational leaps, due to the fact that young people have a linguistic use closer to other young people than with their own parents, here it has been pointed out that generational similarities in the development of language is the cognitive process where human beings, make use of their natural linguistic competence.
On the other hand, endoculturation is teaching culture to new members of society who do not know anything about culture, where it is possible to differentiate two types of members, such as the primary population, which is where the family participates, but there are also elements that are They learn in the family group and that is when secondary socialization begins, which is established by school and the intensive means of social communication.
