Product Life Cycle Examples. The traditional product life cycle curve is broken up into four key stages. Products first go through the Introduction stage, before passing into the Growth stage. Next comes Maturity until eventually the product will enter the Decline stage. These examples illustrate these stages for particular markets in more detail.
View Full Document. Postprocessual paradigm : A paradigm that focuses on humanistic approaches and rejects scientific objectivity; it sees archaeology as inherently political and is more concerned with interpreting the past than with testing hypotheses.
In describing social processes, the relativistic perspective tends to avoid such terms as characteristics or variables that imply a certain state or condition of a phenomenon at a single point in time and refer instead to stages or contingencies involved in a process over time.escribing the nature of definitional processes. Since the central concept of the relativistic perspective is based on audience definitions of persons and behaviors as deviant, a major task for these sociologists is the description of the general processes involved in these definitional phenomena.