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In a very simple definition cultural diffusion iswhen different cultures are spread into different areas. ... Cultural diffusion happens all over the world, from fast food restaurants to new technologies, cultures are constantly interacting with each other. These interactions lead to cultural diffusion...
Diffusion is defined as the borrowing by one society of a cultural trait belonging to another society as the result of contact between the two societies. In really simple terms, it's what happens when one society comes into contact with another society and ends up adopting some of the ...
Axelrod's simple, but powerful model of cultural diffusion1 has been used to explore this question2. Some recent extensions explored the effects of introducing stochastic3,4,5,6, complex network7 and thermodynamic quantities8 into the system. Others have investigated more specifically social mechanis...
In 1962, the normative definition was discarded by Lewis Binford who noted that while the generic process of diffusion had come to be the explanation of choice, it actually explained nothing because why diffusion had occurred (whether the transmission of ideas, the movement of people, or any ...
Aplin, L. Understanding the multiple factors governing social learning and the diffusion of innovations. Curr. Opin. Behav. Sci. 12, 59–65 (2016). Article Google Scholar Smolla, M., Alem, S., Chittka, L. & Shultz, S. Copy-when-uncertain: bumblebees rely on social information when ...
(2001) has argued that learning influenced by a conformist bias—here, a bias towards acquiring an ideational variant at a disproportionately higher frequency than the prevalence of that behaviour in the population—generates a recognisable ‘s-shaped’ sigmoidal diffusion curve under a range of ...
According to Poulopoulos and Wallace [80] the paradigm change that is going on in recent years is closely related to the generation of data and to the diffusion of culture shifting from the object-centered approach to the people-centered approach. There is a trend for museum institutions to in...
Time and Space What time is it and where am I? These may seem like simple questions, but are in reality some of the most sophisticated inquiries in human existence, which prompt some pretty complex answers. I could answer that I'm at my desk, and it's a little after noon, but the ...
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