But this view of America's homogenization is based on a simplistic theory of mass culture and ignores the national debate over multiculturalism.

He saw the theory as leading to a simplistic "algorithmic" theory of evolution, or even to the re-introduction of a teleological principle.

That is to say that this early and simplistic theory failed to account for political, social and institutional obstacles to development.

Instead, the reform failed because of the simplistic theory that guided it and the lack of experienced American experts who could understand Latin American customs.

A series of similar studies followed, abandoning the simplistic theories previously used and introducing a full consideration of magnetohydrodynamics with a partially resistive plasma.

No serious scholar would hold such simplistic theories today.

The only disconcerting thing is that the novel feels it must spell out its simplistic theory of heroism.

She criticizes the authors' "simplistic theory, that the secret of weight loss is just to eat healthy food.

"Huckleberry Finn" promotes a "simplistic and evasive theory" of racism as a problem to be alleviated through feeling rather than action.

We are going to boil or drown: that is the basic, crude, but nevertheless simplistic theory upon which we are supposed to legislate.