Vocab 1.3

Distribution

Distribution

The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.

Behavioral geography

An approach to human geography that emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space.

Diffusion

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time

Globalization

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

Transnational Corporation

A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.

Density

The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area

Concentration

The extent of a feature's spread over a given area

Patterns

The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a particular area.

Poststructuralist Geography

Geographic approach that examines how the powerful in a society, dominate, or seat, control, less powerful groups, how the dominated groups occupy, space, and confront the results from the domination

Humanistic geography

An approach to human geography that emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings.

uneven development

The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization in the economy

Hierarchical diffusion

the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places

Contagious diffusion

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

Stimulus diffusion

The spread of an underlying principle

Distance decay

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

Space-time compression

The reduction in the time it takes to defuse some thing to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems

Assimilation

The process by which a groups cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group

Syncretism

The combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural

Hearth

A place from which an innovation originates.

Relocation diffusion

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.

Expansion Diffusion

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a additive process.