Unit 1 Part 5

Question 1

Uneven development

Answer 1

The increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery.

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

The process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group.

Question 3

Acculturation

Answer 3

The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups.

Question 4

Syncretism

Answer 4

The combination of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature.

Question 5

Diffusion

Answer 5

The process by which a feature spreads across space from one place to another over time.

Question 6

Hearth

Answer 6

A place from which an innovation originates.

Question 7

Relocation Diffusion

Answer 7

The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.

Question 8

Expansion Diffusion

Answer 8

The spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process.

Question 9

Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 9

The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places.

Question 10

Contagious Diffusion

Answer 10

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population.

Question 11

Stimulus Diffusion

Answer 11

The spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself fails to diffuse.