Matthew Bishop

10/22/19



                                                Globalization and Cultural Diffusion- Blog #13




In class today we learned about cultural diffusion and the five types of it. Cultural diffusion is the process of spreading cultural traits from one region to another. There are 5 types of cultural diffusion.
1. Expansion Diffusion- An innovation or idea that develops in a source area and remains strong there, while spreading to other areas.
2. Relocation Diffusion- An idea or innovation that spreads to new areas, leaving its origin or source of the cultural trait behind them.
3. Hierarchical Diffusion- An idea or innovation that spreads by moving from larger to smaller places, often with little regard to the distance between places, and often influenced by social elites.
4. Contagious Diffusion- An idea or innovation that spreads based on person-to-person contact within a given population.
5. Stimulus Diffusion- An idea or innovation that spreads based on its attachment to another concept.

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