Spatial Concepts

Question 1

Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 1

when ideas leapfrog from one important person, community, or city to another by passing other persons, communties, or rural areas

Question 2

Expansion diffusion

Answer 2

when ideas or pratices spread throughout a population, from area to area. In a snowball process, so that the total number of knowers or users and the areas of occurrence increase

Question 3

Contagious diffusion

Answer 3

wave spread of ideas in the manner of a contagious diease. Equivalent of something going viral.

Question 4

Stimulus Diffusion

Answer 4

when a specific trait is rejected but the underlying idea is accepted

Question 5

Relocation Diffusion

Answer 5

When people move, or relocate, they spread ideas along with them.

Question 6

Reverse Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 6

when ideas leapfrog from a lower level of a hierarchy to a higher level

Question 7

Globalization

Answer 7

the growing interdependence of the world’s economies, cultures, and populations

Question 8

Time-space compression

Answer 8

The decreasing distance between places, as measured by travel time or cost; often summarize by the phrase “the world is shrinking”