STRUCTURALISM

theory that uses culturally interconnected signs to reconstruct systems of relationships rather than studying isolated, material things in themselves. This method found wide use from the early 20th cent. in a variety of fields, especially linguistics, particularly as formulated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss used structuralism to study the kinship systems of different societies. No single element in such a system has meaning except as an integral part of a set of structural connections. These interconnections are said to be binary in nature and are viewed as the permanent, organizational categories of experience. Structuralism has been influential in literary criticism and history, as with the work of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. In France after 1968 this search for the deep structure of the mind was criticized by such "poststructuralists" as Jacques Derrida, who abandoned the goal of reconstructing reality scientifically in favor of "deconstructing" the illusions of metaphysics (see semiotics).

See J. Culler, Structuralist Poetics (1976); J. Sturrock, ed., Structuralism and Since: From Lévi-Strauss to Derrida (1979).

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Structuralism and Semiotics
Book by Terence Hawkes; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Semiotics, Structuralism (Literary Analysis)
Structuralism and Semiotics We live in a world of signs, and...critics turned to the methods of analysis loosely termed structuralism and semiotics. Their work gave rise to a revolution...classic guide discusses the nature and development of structuralism and semiotics, calling for a new critical awareness...
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Laevi-Strauss: Structuralism and Sociological Theory
Book by C. R. Badcock; Holmes & Meier, 1976
Subjects: Social Structure, Sociology, Structuralism
Levi-Strauss Structuralism and Sociological Theory C...Badcock, C. R. Levi-Strauss: structuralism and sociological theory. Bibliography...Sociology. 2. Levi-Strauss, Claude. 3. Structuralism. 4. Social structure. HM24.B23...
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Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity
Book by John Lechte; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Feminist Theory, Philosophy, Marxist, Philosophy, Modern--20th Century, Semiotics, Structuralism
...further reading. From early structuralism, Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers guides us through post-structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales...CONTEMPORARY THINKERS From structuralism to postmodernity John Lechte...
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New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and beyond
Book by Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis; Routledge, 1992
Subjects: Motion Pictures--Semiotics
...NEW VOCABULARIES IN FILM SEMIOTICS Structuralism, Post-structuralism and Beyond Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne and...Stam NEW VOCABULARIES IN FILM SEMIOTICS Structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond Robert Stam...
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The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-Structuralism, and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa
Book by Helen Malson; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: Anorexia Nervosa--Social Aspects, Leanness--Psychological Aspects, Women--Socialization
...Boyle THE THIN WOMAN Feminism, post-structuralism and the social psychology of anorexia...M. The Thin Woman: feminism, post-structuralism, and the social psychology of anorexia...Discourse analysis and post-structuralism 39...
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Michael Riffaterre and the Unfinished Project of Structuralism
Journal article by Jean-Michel Rabate; The Romanic Review, Vol. 93, 2002
Subjects: Breton, Andre--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Foucault, Michel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Habermas, Jurgen--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Riffaterre, Michael--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Structuralism--Analysis, Valery, Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc., de Man, Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Riffaterre and the unfinished project of structuralism. by Jean-Michel Rabate...irresistible success of French "neo-Structuralism." Twenty one years should be the right...the movement at issue is called "neo-Structuralism," a term that German critics tend to...
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Structuralism Versus Individualism: Part 1, Shadowboxing in the Dark
Journal article by Bruceh. Mayhew; Social Forces, Vol. 59, 1980
Subjects: Social Problems, Social Service
Structuralism Versus Individualism: Part 1, Shadowboxing in the Dark * BRUCEH. MAYHEW...recent years, I have heard from one source and another that there are several structuralisms around. There are varieties of both Marxist and nonMarxist structuralism (Sahlins, b; Sebag). These include French structuralism, British structuralism...
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The Parry-Lord Theory Meets Operational Structuralism
Journal article by Carol L. Edwards; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 96, 1983
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Parry-Lord Theory Meets Operational Structuralism EVEN TODAY MANY FOLKLORISTS, classicists...oral-formulaic theory bridges contextualism and structuralism. Moreover, this prescient focus on...anticipates Jean Piagets operational structuralism. Any poetics that takes into account...
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Structuralism or Voluntarism? a Rejoinder to Barry Wellman's 'Comment on Siddique and Turk'
Journal article by C. Muhammad Siddique; Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 22, 1985
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology
Structuralism or voluntarism? A rejoinder to Barry Wellmans Comment...some measurement problems, Wellman even abandons his structuralism for voluntaristic individualism, and he makes a vain...constraints and pressures of work rather than a narrow structuralism revolving around a mechanistic measuring of the number...
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Listening to the Native: The Non-Ironic Alternative to "Dialogic" Ethnography (as Well as to Functionalism, Marxism and Structuralism)
Journal article by Graham Watson; The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 33, 1996
Subjects: Conversation--Analysis, Culture--Research, Ethnomethodology--Research, Native Americans--Alberta
...to the native: the non-ironic alternative to "dialogic" ethnography (as well as to functionalism, Marxism and structuralism). by Graham Watson I propose to analyse 29 lines of fieldnotes concerning "bad medicine" among...
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Therapy
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 277, April 1997
Subjects: English fiction
...incarnations: deconstructionism, post-structuralism, Marxism, cultural criticism, and historicism...domination. Meaning? No such thing; post-structuralism has shown that owing to the nature...books with titles like Working With Structuralism and The Modes of Modern Writing--contains...
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The Strange Birth of Liberal France
Magazine article by Mark Lilla; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 18, Autumn 1994
Subjects: France--History, Liberalism--History
...vocabularies, whether those of Marxism, French structuralism, or German critical theory. Despite...two decades, and who participated in structuralism (and what foreigners called post-structuralism), had mostly grown up in different circumstances...
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Probing Scripture
Magazine article by Carol Newsom; The Christian Century, Vol. 118, January 3, 2001
Subjects: Bible (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bible stories--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Religion--Study and teaching, Religious literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...reflected in biblical studies. Structuralism was the first of these new...its impact. The origins of structuralism lie in the work of the early...meaning of the texts. Even as structuralism was being adapted for the study...
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Critical Reflections
Magazine article by Jean Louis Schefer; Artforum International, Vol. 35, March 1997
Subjects: Art criticism--Analysis
...suggesting that in the aftermath of structuralism he simply chose to work in a more private...helped to transform semiology into structuralism. This intense work of bricolage was...constructing systems. The critical utopia of structuralism was, for my generation, the foundation...
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Practice without Principle
Magazine article by Wendy Steiner; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Summer 1999
Subjects: Criticism--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Critics--Practice, Literature--Criticism and interpretation
...therefore much taken with semiotics and structuralism with...Since the 1970s, semiotics and structuralism have passed by like a dream in the...certain family resemblance. Formalism, structuralism, semiotics, Marxism, feminism, the...
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The Art of Polemics
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 1, 2004
...of literature into an academic exercise, principally through the philosophical "imperialism" known as structuralism and post-structuralism. The direction of his speech would sound like so much exoticism to the unliterary, but it only took...
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The Art of Polemics
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 22, 2004
...of literature into an academic exercise, principally through the philosophical "imperialism" known as structuralism and post-structuralism. The direction of his speech would sound like so much exoticism to the unliterary, but it only took...
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Even the Mighty Fall for a Hoax; AND INCIDENTALLY
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 29, 2006
...well as such pointed exposures of gullibility as the Hitler Diaries, printed in the Sunday Times, and the parody of post-structuralism by the physicist Alain Sokal, ludicrously accepted by an academic journal. But it is especially piquant that AN Wilson should...
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Way to Go in Rearview Mirror?
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, October 10, 1999
Subjects: Postman, Neil
...fresh worries - the Bomb, an AIDS pandemic, global terrorism - plus intellectual and social crises at home in the names of structuralism and postmodernism, the information revolution and widespread breakdown of traditional authority in the family, at school...
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Perfecting Man by Killing Him
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, February 6, 2000
...astringently so. No less than the want of welcome given returning deportees by the French in the mid-1940s, he finds the rise of structuralism and other modes of thought hostile to the subjective in man in the postwar years hardly more humane. Mr. Finkielkraut...
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Structuralism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STRUCTURALISM theory that uses culturally interconnected signs...Jakobson . Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss used structuralism to study the kinship systems of different societies...permanent, organizational categories of experience. Structuralism has been influential in literary criticism and history...
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Deconstruction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...metaphysical assumptions involved in systematic attempts to ground knowledge, especially in academic disciplines such as structuralism and semiotics . The term "deconstruction" was coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in the 1960s. In general...
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Derrida, Jacques
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sociales, Paris, and a number of American universities. In his famously dense and complex writings he refuted the theory of structuralism and attempted to take apart, or "deconstruct," the edifice of Western metaphysics and reveal what he deemed its incompatible...
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Lodge, David
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...with modern literary theory, include The Language of Fiction (1966), The Modes of Modern Writing (1977), Working with Structuralism (1981), The Art of Fiction (1992), and Consciousness and the Novel (2002). Since 1987 he has been a full-time writer...
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Piaget, Jean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...well. Influenced by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss , Piagets Structuralism (1970) focused on the applications of dialectics and structuralism in the behavioral sciences. He also attempted a synthesis of physics, biology...
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