Diffusion
This type of diffusion spreads rapidly from person to person.
What is contagious diffusion?
This term describes the right of a state to govern itself without interference from other states.
What is sovereignty?
This type of religion attempts to appeal to people globally and seeks converts.
What is a universalizing religion?
This type of migration occurs within a country’s borders.
What is internal migration?
This term describes the spread of cultural traits, ideas, or innovations from one place to another.
What is diffusion?
When cultural traits move because people move, this diffusion occurs.
What is relocation diffusion?
This is a political unit made up of a culturally unified people with a sovereign government.
What is a nation-state?
This global language is used for communication between people who speak different native languages.
What is a lingua franca?
When migrants move step by step, they follow this type of migration.
What is step migration?
This is when people adopt some traits of another culture while keeping their own distinct identity.
What is acculturation?
This type of diffusion comes from a key person or place of power before spreading to others.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
This process involves transferring power from a central government to regional or local governments.
What is devolution?
This term describes the geographic area where a religion originated.
What is a cultural hearth?
This type of migration occurs when migrants follow relatives or community members who previously migrated there.
What is chain migration?
This occurs when a minority group fully adopts the culture of the dominant society.
What is assimilation?
This diffusion is when a trait adapts to fit the area it spreads to.
What is stimulus diffusion?
These boundaries are when outside powers draw boundaries while ignoring existing cultural patterns.
What are superimposed boundaries?
A language that develops when speakers of different languages need to communicate, usually with simplified grammar.
What is a pidgin language?
A person who crosses an international border because of war or persecution.
What is a refugee?
This is when cultural traits spread outward but are adapted or changed in the new area.
What is stimulus diffusion?
This type of diffusion is when culture expands from its hearth while remaining strong at its origin.
What is expansion diffusion?
This political theory explains global inequality by separating countries into core, periphery, and semi-periphery.
What is World Systems Theory?
This process describes how a new language forms when different languages merge through long term contact.
What is creolization?
This term describes the loss of educated or highly skilled workers from a country due to emigration.
What is brain drain?
This is when successive societies leaving cultural imprints on a landscape over time.
What is sequent occupance?