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...

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...

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...

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....

General term for variously developed branches of structuralism pioneered above all by E.Sapir (1884–1939) and L.Bloomfield (1887–1949). Although the various schools cannot be clearly distinguished from one another, a distinction is made...

// n. 1. Any approach to linguistic description which views the grammar of a language primarily as a system of relations. Structuralism in this sense derives largely from the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Virtually all...

The term ‘structuralism’ has been used in anthropology to designate a number of quite distinct theoretical positions but recently it has normally only been used to label the theories which were originally developed from the 1940s onward by...

European critical movement of the mid-20th century. It is based on the linguistic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, which hold that language is a self-contained system of signs, and the cultural theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss, which hold that...

Those linguists taking up a structuralist approach see language as a sort of web in which every part is related to the whole. The American structuralist, Leonard Bloomfield, aimed to set down a catalogue of elements in a language and the positions in...

n. 1. Any approach to linguistic description which views the structure of a language primarily as a system of relations. Structuralism in this sense derives chiefly from the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Virtually all...

A method of analysis, based on the idea that the key to understanding a phenomenon lies in the underlying patterns of relationships of its...

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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...