NOUN
- a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals
- an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena
- linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse
How To Use structuralism In A Sentence
- Ascetic structuralism was a major line of enquiry in the London-based structural movement.
- (1997, 2006, 2008) defends an empiricist and non-realist form of structuralism about science, motivated by an illuminating reconstruction of the origins of structuralism in the debate about the epistemology of physical geometry in the nineteenth century, and more generally in the progressive mathematisation of science. Structural Realism
- In a crazy way, a good way of getting to grips with postmodernism / structuralism might be to dive into some examples in the Arts.
- Language-based approaches, such as semiotics, structuralism, and post-structuralism, are not vision-based.
- It is not clear whether Elizabeth is referring here to the deconstructionist theory of the late twentieth century which undermined the assumption that texts have intentional, recuperable meanings — in which case Kafka is a bad example, because his texts were recognized as being radically indeterminate in meaning well before the advent of poststructuralism — or whether she is saying that Kafka was a kind of prophet of deconstruction. Disturbing the Peace
- Especially during the heyday of Bloomfieldian structuralism, linguists were scathing of conceptual definitions of word classes.
- And after structuralism / post-structuralism broke everything, how could anything be shattered more completely than it had been already?
- His work fuses elements of American structuralism, the narrative avant-garde and experimental documentary.
- When I went to Paris, structuralism was very important.
- In structuralism, these formal properties are taken at a relatively abstract level.
