unilinear

No serious anthropologist takes that unilinear view any more: there's been a lot of water under the bridge since Lewis Henry Morgan.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

But they have not been “passive subjects in a unilinear history of decline.”

Cover to Cover 2009

But they have not been “passive subjects in a unilinear history of decline.”

Cover to Cover 2009

Its narrative web is undercut by chronological and scenic disruptions and juxtapositions that deliberately frustrate any attempt to fix a unilinear sequence of events, a rigid structure that encloses the story like a frame around a landscape painting.

The Story of an African Farm 2010

It will be recalled that, by the law of inertia it takes more energy to move a body at rest or to alter the velocity of a body than it does to maintain speed once gained, for once a body is in uniform unilinear motion it will continue to remain so with only the force necessary to overcome friction.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution 2009

In point of fact, Weber's rationalization thesis can be understood with richer nuance when we approach it as, for lack of better terms, a dialectics of disenchantment and reenchantment rather than as a one-sided, unilinear process.

Asthmatic 2009

It may seem withal a weighty cause of sort – a fey pause in tall analysis, a “what brought it to this” bleep in unilinear thinking, a weak, spur

I Cannot Imagine Purity Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

I don't think too many folks these days, even those of us of the Marxish persuasion, believe in some essentialist notion of "progress," with its quasi-religious teleology and its unilinear social-evolutionary implications.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

There were the "savages" then the "barbarians" and then of course, the "civilizations" - very unilinear thinking, to believe that all societies developed exactly the same way.

calling all anthropologists 2008

We accept that the changed geopolitical situation presents us with a set of circumstances that do not make a continuous and unilinear process of change, possible.

ANC Today 2006