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Process by which we encounter a culture's or ideology's values and internalize them

Not to be confused with interpolation or interpolation (disambiguation).

For the parliamentary procedure of the same name, see Interpellation (politics).

This article is about philosophy.

For sociology and creation of self-concept, see Internalization (sociology).

For Freud's psychology, see Identification (psychology).

For the position in the "nature versus nurture" debate in psychology and philosophy of mind, see Social determinism, Cultural determinism, Enculturation, Tabula rasa, Social learning theory, and Externalism.

Interpellation is a concept introduced to Marxist theory by Louis Althusser as the mechanism through which pre-existing social structures "constitute" (or construct) individual human organisms as subjects (with consciousness and agency).

Althusser asked how people come voluntarily to live within class, gender, racial or other identities, and