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periodiˈzation
[f. periodize v. + -ation.]
Division into periods of time; spec. the grouping of historical and cultural events in chronological periods (see period n. 4 c) for the purposes of discussion and evaluation.
1938[see concept n. 2 c]. 1952K. R. Popper Open Society (ed. 2) II. xii. 59 No doubt, his [sc. Hegel's] vast historicist generalizations, periodizations, and interpretations fascinated some historians. 1957K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism ix. 395 This periodization appeared again in an article in 1916. 1963R. M. Grant Hist. Introd. New Testament i. 14 The question of periodization arose in the second century... Generally speaking, historians have differentiated three periods. 1967L. Deuel Conquistadors without Swords xxi. 285 Uaxactún yielded a continuous series of pottery which made it possible to establish a complete overall Maya stratigraphy and periodization. 1970B. Brewster tr. Althusser & Balibar's Reading Capital (1975) ii. iv. 94 On this level, then, the whole problem of the science of history would consist of the division of this continuum according to a periodization corresponding to the succession of one dialectal totality after another. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Nov. 1386/1 Accepting the traditional periodization of world history according to the days of creation. 1974J. White tr. Poulantzas's Fascism & Dictatorship iv. 233 The general line which was progressively dominant in the USSR and in the Comintern can allow us to make a relatively clear periodization of the Comintern, a periodization which can also be very useful for the history of the USSR. 1976Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. XXVII. 301 In as far as sociology defines its object of investigation as ‘society’, ‘the social system’ or some such general unspecified synonym, it denies itself any rigorous principle of historical periodization. |