Since the 1940s the term structuralism has become generally used for a certain approach (not a school or dogma), particularly in linguistics, social anthropology and psychology. Although there is some difference between the way it is applied in these...

The new-found interest in cosmology is to a large extent attributable to the influence of the work of *Lévi-Strauss and his notion of the ‘order of orders’. Lévi-Strauss makes an analytic contrast between ‘lived-in’...

Collective term for a number of linguistic approaches in the first half of the twentieth century, all based on the work of F. de Saussure, but strongly divergent from one another. Depending on theoretical preconceptions, the term...

The success, ambitions, and even failures of Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism are perhaps now being seen in some sort of perspective, but in the period from the 1960s to the early 1980s it dominated not only anthropology but many other domains....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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