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30 lip 2023 · Hierarchical diffusion is one of six ways cultures can spread around the world (what we call ‘types of cultural diffusion’). What makes hierarchical diffusion unique is that it involves the spread of culture starting from the most powerful and influential people within the culture.
16 lip 2023 · Hierarchical diffusion occurs when famous or influential people in society share a cultural idea. The culture is spread from the top of society down. In the past, the fashion preferences of the kings and queens would spread throughout polite society.
Hierarchical diffusion is a type of cultural diffusion where ideas, innovations, or trends spread from larger or more influential places to smaller or less influential ones, often following a structured or ranked order.
Hierarchical diffusion is one of the three main types of expansion diffusion, in addition to contagious diffusion and stimulus diffusion. Hierarchical Diffusion: Transmission of culture (via ideas) moving vertically, cascading from one or spreading upward ("reverse") from multiple sources.
Definition. Hierarchical diffusion is a process where an idea or innovation spreads from a higher authority or influential individual to lower levels in a social hierarchy.
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 that spreads based on person-to-person contact within a given population with no regard for hierarchies.
Expansion Diffusion: Hierarchical The spread of cultural traits from the most interconnected, powerful, wealthy people/organizations down to others. May be restrictive due to cost or access.