processualismn.
/prəˈsɛsjʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /prəˈsɛsjᵿlɪz(ə)m/, /prəˈsɛʃʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /prəˈsɛʃᵿlɪz(ə)m/, /prəˈsɛʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /prəˈsɛʃ(əw)əˌlɪz(ə)m/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
1. Social Sciences. Any theoretical approach in social sciences based on a methodological and often comparative analysis of processes; advocacy of such an approach.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis
reflexivity1662
social statics1843
social causation1848
sociography1881
functionalism1904
class analysis1919
culturalism1919
mass observation1920
survey1927
participant observation1933
participant observing1933
Verstehen1934
panel technique1938
MO1939
ahistoricism1940
historicism1940
technologism1940
action research1945
metasociology1950
pattern variable1951
structural functionalism1951
structuralism1951
panel analysis1955
cliometrics1960
unilinearism1964
technology assessment1966
symbolic interactionism1969
modernization theory1972
processualism1972
postcolonialism1974
decontextualization1976
decontextualizing1980
structurism1989
1972 Contemp. Sociol. 1 428/1 Not only does he [sc. Kress] indicate why certain quarters of contemporary political science would likely reject Bentley's transactional processualism, but why it should be rejected.
1981 Social Forces 59 1000 Political Systems of Highland Burma was a turning point for processualism.
1997 S. C. Watkins et al. in G. W. Jones et al. Continuing Demographic Transition iii. x. 248 The 1970s were marked by..growing defections from static jural analyses of social relations to interests in ‘processualism’ or ‘constructionism’.
2. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology. Processual methods applied to archaeology or anthropology; the advocacy or promulgation of such methods in these fields.
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1977 Amer. Anthropologist 79 974/2 In archaeology it can be hoped that the emergence of processualism will displace the..concepts of foreign intrusion and radical cultural change that plague Andean prehistory.
1987 Amer. Ethnol. 14 730 Processualism addresses a complex mix of order, antiorder, and nonorder.
2004 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 10 675 Processualism was influencing the goals and methods of prehistorians in Israel, as in other parts of the world.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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