Look up: structuralism

1. 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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2. 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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3. 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 retain...
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4. structuralism
   A branch of psychology interested in the basic structure and elements of consciousness. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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5. structuralism
   noun a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals
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6. structuralism
   noun an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena
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7. structuralism
   noun linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. structuralism
    Type: Term Pronunciation: strŭk′chūr-ăl-izm Definitions: 1. A branch of psychology interested in the basic structure and elements of consciousness.
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18. 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, structuralists believe that objects should be analysed as systems of relations, rather than as positive entities. Saussure proposed that language is a system o...
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19. Structuralism
    `Structuralism` is an intellectual movement that developed in France in the 1950s and 1960s, in which human culture is analysed semiotically (i.e., as a system of signs). Structuralism originated in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and the subsequent Prague and Moscow schools of l...
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20. Structuralism
    (biology) `Biological` or `process structuralism` is a school of biological thought that deals with the law-like behaviour of the structure of organisms and how it can change. Structuralists tend to emphasise that organisms are wholes, and therefore that change in one part must necessarily ta...
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21. Structuralism
    (architecture) and Hannie van Eyck) `Structuralism` as a movement in architecture and urban planning evolved around the middle of the 20th century. It was a reaction to CIAM-Functionalism (Rationalism), which had led to a lifeless expression of urban planning that ignored the identity of the ...
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22. Structuralism
    (psychology) `Structuralism` in psychology refers to the theory founded by Edward B. Titchener (1867-1923), with the goal to describe the structure of the mind in terms of the most primitive elements of mental experience. This theory focused on three things: the individual elements of conscio...
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