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Social osmosis

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Social osmosis or cultural osmosis is the indirect infusion of social or cultural knowledge. Effectively, social content is diffused, and by happenstance, authentic experience is displaced by repeated absorption of such content or information through auxiliary means, thus leading the subject to acquiring knowledge of social phenomena.

An example of social osmosis would be knowing a TV show exists and possessing detailed information concerning aspects of the show, such as key imagery or the names of the characters, without actively acquiring said knowledge by watching the show or being even interested in it.

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  • Osmosis, the movement of molecules through a membrane