APHUG Module 3 Vocabulary

@ Jannace - SEHS - ‘24 (P5)

relative location

the position of one place or person in relation to the position of another place

space

the areas we occupy as humans; it has no value until the people who occupy it, make it their own

place

how we modify space based on who we are as a group of people

cultural landscape

the built forms that cultural groups create in inhabiting Earth - farm fields, cities, houses - and meaning, values, representations and experiences associated with those forms

time-space compression

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

interdependence (globalization)

the ties between regions and countries that overtime collectively create a global economic system, not necessarily based on equality

geographic processes

the physical and human forces that work together to form and transform the world

diffusion

the pattern by which a phenomenon, such as the movements of people or their ideas, technology and preferences spread from a particular location through space and time

expansion diffusion

occurs when ideas or practices spread throughout a population, from area to area, in snowball process, so total number of knowers or users and areas of occurrence increase

hierarchical diffusion

occurs when ideas leapfrog from one important person, community or city to another bypassing other people, communities or rural areas

reverse hierarchical diffusion

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

contagious diffusion

the wavelike spread of ideas in the matter of a contagious disease, moving throughout space without regard to hierarchy (going viral)

stimulus diffusion

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

relocation diffusion

occurs when individuals or groups with a particular idea or practice migrate from one location to another and bring that idea to their new homeland

friction of distance

the inhibiting effect of distance on the intensity and volume of most most forms of human interaction - time space compression diminishes friction of distance