processual
adjEtymology From process + -ual.
1
Of or relating to a process, especially to the methodological study of processes in social science.
- In order to address the systematic, processual character of interpersonal interactions — the larger mosaic of micro-level patterns — we must postulate subapparent but encompassing structures of social activity.2017, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael J. Lynch, Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime:
2
Of or relating to the methodological study of cultural change and variability in archaeology.
- Derived terms
- postprocessual, processualism, processualist, processually