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  2. Anticipatory socialization - Wikipedia

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    Anticipatory socialization is the process, facilitated by social interactions, in which non-group members learn to take on the values and standards of groups that they aspire to join, so as to ease their entry into the group and help them interact competently once they have been accepted by it.

  3. Organizational assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Organizational assimilation is a process in which new members of an organization integrate into the organizational culture.. This concept, proposed by Fredric M. Jablin, [1] consists of two dynamic processes that involve the organizational attempts to socialize the new members, as well as the current organization members. [2]

  4. Anticipation (artificial intelligence) - Wikipedia

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    In artificial intelligence (AI), anticipation occurs when an agent makes decisions based on its explicit beliefs about the future. More broadly, "anticipation" can also refer to the ability to act in appropriate ways that take future events into account, without necessarily explicitly possessing a model of the future events.

  5. Eusociality - Wikipedia

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    Suzanne Batra introduced the term "eusocial" [1] after studying nesting in Halictid bees including Halictus latisignatus, [2] pictured.. The term "eusocial" was introduced in 1966 by Suzanne Batra, who used it to describe nesting behavior in Halictid bees, on a scale of subsocial/solitary, colonial/communal, semisocial, and eusocial, where a colony is started by a single individual.

  6. Enculturation - Wikipedia

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    Both roughly describe the adaptation of an individual into social groups by absorbing the ideas, beliefs and practices surrounding them. In some disciplines, socialization refers to the deliberate shaping of the individual. As such, the term may cover both deliberate and informal enculturation. [1]

  7. Sociobiology - Wikipedia

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    The book pioneered and popularized the attempt to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism, aggression, and nurturance, primarily in ants (Wilson's own research specialty) and other Hymenoptera, but also in other animals. However, the influence of evolution on behavior has been of interest to biologists and ...

  8. Evolution of eusociality - Wikipedia

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    Charles Darwin considered the evolution of eusociality a major problem for his theory of natural selection.In The Origin of Species, he described the existence of sterile worker castes in the social insects as "the one special difficulty, which at first appeared to me insuperable and actually fatal to my whole theory".

  9. Habitus (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Bernard Lahire - a French sociologist who suggested that the habitus is not (or no longer) a system shared by a class, but rather an eclectic set of dispositions that are often contradictory, due to non-typical socialization paths in late modernity. [11] Gabriel Ignatow explored how the notion of habitus can contribute to the sociology of morality.