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Structuralism [first Edition] Summary
7,884 words, approx. 26 pages
STRUCTURALISM [FIRST EDITION]. In their widely read anthology of this topic, Richard T. De George and Fernande M. De George (1972) note that "bibliographies on structuralism can be virtually endless if one succumbs to the temptation to include...
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Structuralism and Poststructuralism Summary
5,227 words, approx. 17 pages
Structuralism and Poststructuralism Structuralism emerged as a dominant intellectual paradigm in France in the late 1950s in part in response to the existentialist emphasis on subjectivity and individual autonomy—personified in the work and...
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Structuralism [further Considerations] Summary
3,484 words, approx. 12 pages
STRUCTURALISM [FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS]. In 1970, Sir Edmund Leach wrote in his book about Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–) that structuralism was held by many to be a new philosophy. "Lévi-Strauss," he stated, "is...
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Structuralism Information
3,226 words, approx. 11 pages
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...


News and Journals
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American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
Structural Bioinformatics
01/01/2003: 617 words, approx. 2 pages
PHILIP E. BOURNE AND HELGE WEISSIG, Editors. Structural Bioinformatics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss, Inc. 2003 xvii + 649p, illus. $149.95 (hardcover); $69.95 (soft cover). The importance of structural genomics in bioinformatics cannot be overestimated. The unraveling of the human genome followed by several animal...
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Mechanical Engineering-CIME
Adaptive structures.
11/01/1990: 4,559 words, approx. 15 pages
ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES Equipped with sensors and actuators, an adaptive structure can purposefully vary its geometric configuration as well as its physical properties. Examples include space cranes, swing-wing aircraft, electroheological fluids, and shape memory alloys. The performance required of future precision space structures...
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AP News
Cisco changes management structure
12/21/2007: 636 words, approx. 2 pages
A "development council" composed of several executives will replace Cisco Systems Inc. CEO heir-apparent Charles Giancarlo, who has resigned.Cisco Chairman and Chief Executive John Chambers announced the appointment of the group of executives to oversee acquisitions and other business deals on Thursday after he confirmed...
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AP News
Dubai tower world's tallest structure
9/14/2007: 256 words, approx. 1 pages
Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building since July, has also become the tallest free-standing structure on Earth, reaching 1,822 feet, the developers said.The Dubai Tower's final height is a closely guarded secret, but completion of the concrete, glass and steel structure is expected by the...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
In What Ways Has Structuralism Impacted on Literary Criticism?
2,388 words, approx. 8 pages
Structuralism enabled the opening of literary studies into cultural studies and helped break down the strict division of literature and popular writing. Structuralist approaches laid the foundations for other critical theories to evolve much of this involved with resisting what poststructuralists called the `violent hierarchies' revealed by structuralist methodology.
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Outline and Assessment of Structuralist Theories of Crime
2,126 words, approx. 7 pages
An examination of how a stucturalist would approach the topic of crime and the reasons behind it. Structuralism states that the oppressed, working class has very few life chances to achieve the goal of success that is now so dominant in many cultures, and that this pressure leads many male youths to steal among other means to try to gain monetary success or respect. The wide range of sociological theories used in this examination include functionalism of Durkheim, the American structuralism of Merton, the s


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