Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on enculturation and cognition of children.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on enculturation and cognition of children. Therefore, the aspect of learning and using key aspects of a particular culture constitute a process to an individual, which anthropologists have termed as enculturation. Therefore, this research paper will explore the concept of enculturation and how they impact or influence the cognition process of children. Research methodology to be utilized will largely constitute qualitative research techniques. Secondary data will be relied upon in generating useful information for this study and reliable library books, electronic books, journals and useful websites will be utilized.

Talcott Parsons, one of the credited scholars in the field of sociology is remembered for nothing that the new generation of children being born is a result of a process known as ‘recurrent barbarian invasion’ (Grunlan and Mayers,1988, p.77). The scholar went ahead to explain this concept by stating that children being born into this world do not have a culture of their own. Such children have no idea of the world they are coming into, do not have any language they can communicate into, and even they lack basic moral concepts that society requires them to have. Due to this, Parsons makes the use of the word barbarian to describe such children since they manifest themselves to lack culture and socialization aspects (Grunlan and Mayers, 1988). As they enter the world, the children slowly are expected to live and cope with the different cultural contexts they find themselves in and to do this they require to adopt certain and specific cultural aspects. Therefore, such children have to go through a process of acquiring these cultural aspects and it is this process anthropologists have termed as enculturation while sociologists have termed it as socialization (Grunlan and Mayers, 1988).