Look up: structuralism

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   structuralism
   [n] - linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse 2. [n] - an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena 3. [n] - a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals
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   structuralism
   20th-century philosophical movement that has influenced such areas as linguistics, anthropology, and literary criticism. Inspired by the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure,...
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   Structuralism
   the view that behind the social and cultural realities we perceive, such as clothes or food fashions, kinship organization and even language itself, deep structures exist which, through combinations of their elements, produce the surface complexity of the relevant phenomena. Poststructuralism retains elements of structuralism (its interest in surfa ...
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   structuralism
   A branch of psychology interested in the basic structure and elements of consciousness. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   structuralism
   noun a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals
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   structuralism
   noun an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena
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   structuralism
   noun linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse
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   Structuralism
   `Structuralism` as a term refers to various theories across the humanities, social sciences, and economics, many of which share the assumption that structural relationships between concepts vary between different cultures/languages and that these relationships can be usefully exposed and explored. More accurately it could be described as an approach in academic disciplines in general that explores the relationships between fundamental principal ...
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   structuralism
   (from the article `Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley`) ...public lectures published as Stars and Atoms (1927). In his well-written popular books he also set forth his scientific epistemology, which he ...
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    structuralism
    (from the article `political economy`) ...construct peaceful relations and world order. Economic liberals, in particular, would limit the role of the state in the economy in order to let ...
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    structuralism
    (from the article `mathematics, philosophy of`) Finally, the nontraditional version of Platonism developed by Resnik and Shapiro is known as structuralism. The essential ideas here are that the ...
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    structuralism
    in cultural anthropology, the school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in which cultures, viewed as systems, ... [15 related articles]
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    structuralism
    in linguistics, any one of several schools of 20th-century linguistics committed to the structuralist principle that a language is a self-contained ... [4 related articles]
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    structuralism
    in psychology, a systematic movement founded in Germany by Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) and mainly identified with Edward B. Titchener (1867–1927). ... [6 related articles]
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    structuralism
    A theory of international relations stressing the impact of world economic structures on the political, social, cultural and economic life of countries.
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    structuralism
    structuralism, theory that uses culturally interconnected signs to reconstruct systems of relationships rather than studying isolated, material things in themselves. This method found wide use from the early 20th cent. in a variety of fields, especially linguistics, particularly as formulated by Fer...
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    Structuralism
    (Lat. structura, a building) The conception of mind in terms of its structure whether this structure be interpreted (a) atomistically. See Psychological Atomism, Structural Psychology); or (b) configurationally. (Gestalt Psychology). -- L.W.
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