Types of Cultural Diffusion

This is the spread of cultural items such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, and languages between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.

• Demography

• Population Growth

• Cultural Diffusion

• Geology

This is an idea or innovation that migrates into new areas, leaving behind its origin or source of the cultural trait.

• Relocation Diffusion

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

• Stimulus Diffusion

This is an idea or innovation that spreads by moving from larger to smaller places, often with little regard to the distance between places, and often influence by social elites

• Relocation Diffusion

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

• Stimulus

This is an idea or innovation that spreads based on person to person contact within a given population

• Relocation Diffusion

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

• Stimulus Diffusion

This is an idea or innovation that spreads based on its attachment to another concept

• Relocation Diffusion

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

• Stimulus Diffusion

McDonalds changing their menu to adapt to different cultures is an example of what?

• Relocation Diffusion

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

• Stimulus Diffusion

Chinatown in New York City would be an example of what type of diffusion?

• Relocation

• Hierarchical

• Contagious

• Stimulus

Yoga began in India. It has been adopted all around the United States and the world. It has been changed and modified to help fit each countries or regions need. What diffusion type is this?

• Relocation

• Hierarchical

• Contagious

• Stimulus

This is a negative when it comes to diffusion, but disease is what type of diffusion?

• Relocation

• Hierarchical

• Contagious

• Stimulus

Osama Bin Laden's death would be an example of this. Only a few new of the death and then the information was spread from the top to the rest of society

• Relocation

• Hierarchical

• Contagious

• Stimulus