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Structuralism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Structuralism is an approach to the human sciences that attempts to analyze a specific field (for instance, mythology) as a complex system of interrelated parts. It began in linguistics with the work...
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Post-structuralism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Post-structuralism encompasses the intellectual developments of certain continental philosophers and sociologists who wrote within the tendencies of twentieth-century French philosophy. The movement ...
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Structuralism flourished in the decades after 1960, a period of unprecedented prosperity and security for most Western Europeans, and one in which intellectuals moved out of the milieus of bohemian coffeehouses and free-lance journalism and into the world of the academy.
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3. Structuralism notes that much of our imaginative world is structured of, and structured by, binary oppositions (being/nothingness, hot/cold, culture/nature); these oppositions structure meaning, and one can describe fields of cultural thought, or topoi, by describing the binary sets which compose them.
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Further, the theoretical approach offered by structuralism emphasizes that elements of culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to the entire system (Rubel and Rosman 1996:1263). This notion, that the whole is greater than the parts, appeals to the Gestalt school of psychology.
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