periodization

Examples

• All

• Scholars often use periodization to organize historical events into manageable segments for better understanding.

• Though late Paleolithic in standard periodization, these people had been experimenting with wild crop harvesting thousands of years before the development of agriculture elsewhere.

  Academic text (2000)

• At best, it permits a periodization of some of the rites.

  Academic text (2005)

• One helpful approach for studying technology transience is periodization.

  Academic text (2015)

• One key trend emerges from this periodization scheme: the length of time specific technologies exist has been steadily decreasing over time.

  Academic text (2015)

• We propose an abbreviated periodization schema that encompasses our modern era.

  Academic text (2015)

• Given her efforts to move heaven and earth to change the periodization of European history to reflect gender issues, she's probably hoping these scans will finally achieve the impossible.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The first question I wrestled with was how to fit Chiang Ching-kuo's stewardship in foreign relations into the usual periodizations of Taiwan's diplomatic history.

  Academic text (2000)

• Like French and Hernandez, who carry their respective analyses into the first decade of the Mexican Revolution, historians of Mexico are continuing to develop a periodization that privileges social, cultural, and economic developments over political ones, insofar as the latter have been traditionally defined.

  Academic text (1997)

• In literary studies, periodization helps categorize works based on the era in which they were written.

Synonyms

T

temporalization

vsperiodization

• Specialized

9.9

The act of showing events in the order they happen

divides material into distinct named time periods for study or classification

Antonyms

C

continuity

57 4.7

A situation where things stay the same or keep happening without big changes

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology