A movement of thought in the humanities, widespread in anthropology, linguistics, and literary theory, and influential in the 1950s and ’60s. Based primarily on the linguistic theories of Ferdinand de [..]

 The study of the structure of mind and behavior; the view that all human mental experience can be understood as a combination of simple elements or events.

1891, from structural + -ism.

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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School of thought from the 19th century focused on the gathering of psychological information through the examination of the structure of the mind.

An approach to literary criticism which emphasises that a text does not have one fixed meaning, but is open to any number of interpretations, depending on the meanings attributed to words by both the [..]

Structuralism was a school of thought that sought to identify the components (structure) of the mind (the mind was the key element to psychology at this point). Structuralists believed that the way to [..]

A theoretical approach derived originally from the study of languages which involves delving below the surface appearance of human activity to examine the underlying structures that affect human behav [..]

Structuralism is a way of thinking about the world that is predominantly concerned with the perception and description of structures of interrelated objects, concpets or ideas.

The theory (associated most closely with Claude Lévi-Strauss) that the significance of an item (word, role, practice, belief) is not so much in the particular item but in its relationship to others. I [..]

(n) linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse(n) an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena [..]

Structuralism is the method of investigation which aims at revealing the structure of a complex thing, abstracted from its phenomenal form and materiality. This allows attention to be focussed on stru [..]

an intellectual movement which flourished in the 20th century in a range of domains such as linguistics, literary theory, and sociology. The key linking concept is that understanding phenomena involve [..]

A perspective that is concerned with the overall structure of society, and sees individual behaviour moulded by social institutions like the family, the education system, the mass media and work.

There has been a number of forms of "structuralism" in the history of anthropology. Structural-functionalism approaches the basic structures of a given society as serving key functions in meeting basic human needs. Another form of structuralism, developed by Claude Levi-Strauss, argues that social/cultural structures are actually rooted i [..]

A type of linguistic analysis which stresses the interrelatedness of all levels and sub-levels of language. It was introduced at the beginning of the century by Ferdinand de Saussure (1957-1913) as a [..]

Structuralism is basically a method of enquiry which challenges the assumptions of empiricism and positivism. This method is found in ...

Structuralist analysis advocates a focus on a system in its totality and on the interrelations between its elements rather than on individual elements ...

In British social anthropology, the synchronic concern with social structure, sometimes called social morphology; in French structural anthropology, the concern with the elementary forms of minds and cultures.

A school of thought that originated in Europe in the 1900s, which holds that all aspects of human experience and culture can be apprehended only through their interrelationships. Artworks therefore do [..]

There's always a constant. So says Desmond and so say Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Structuralism got its start in linguistics, but literature caught on quick. Here's the br [..]