3.6 Vocab, Contemporary Causes of Diffusion

Movement of people from rural areas to cities

• Globalization

• Modernization

• Urbanization

• Migration

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

• Urbanization

• Modernization

• Economic Development

• Globalization

the transformation of traditional societies into industrial societies

• Urbanization

• Transmigration

• Globalization

• Modernization

The idea that distance between some places is actually shrinking as technology enables more rapid communication and increased interaction among those places

• time-space convergence (space-time compression)

• contemporary

• cultural convergence

• trends in languages

The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication.

• acculturation

• cultural convergence

• space-time compression

• globalization

Increasing use of lingua franca (global business languages) and decreasing traditional (indigenous) languages

• Contemporary

• Trends in Languages

• Homogenizing

• Urbanization

bringing uniformity or consistency to different elements

• subtyping

• stereotyping

• unidirectional

• homogenizing

the restriction of a culture from outside cultural influences

• stimulus diffusion

• globalization

• acculturation

• cultural divergence

improvement of human living standards by economic growth

• economic development

• globalization

• core-periphery relations

• standard of living

modern

• demography

• globalization

• modernization

• contemporary