Types
- Expansion diffusion: an innovation or idea that develops in a source area and remains strong there, while also spreading outward to other areas.
- Relocation diffusion: an idea or innovation that migrates into new areas, leaving behind its origin or source of the cultural trait.
- Hierarchical diffusion: an idea or innovation that spreads by moving from larger to smaller places, often with little regard to the distance between places, and often influenced by social elites.
- Contagious diffusion: an idea or innovation based on person-to-person contact within a given population.
Read more about this topic: Trans-cultural Diffusion
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—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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