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.
That way of defining societies was based on the widely applied principle of Systems Thinking and was commonly referred to as cultural ecology, functional archaeology, or simply systems theory. This research tradition or paradigm is now generally referred to as Processual Archaeology. Through viewing a society as a generalised model, something seemingly unpredictable was becoming predictable and could subsequently be subjected to the most elaborate scrutiny through the most undetached and neutral method available â the method of the natural sciences.