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structuralism

noun
struc路​tur路​al路​ism | \ 藞str蓹k-ch蓹-r蓹-藢li-z蓹m How to pronounce structuralism (audio) , 藞str蓹k-shr蓹-\

Definition of structuralism

1 : psychology concerned especially with resolution of the mind into structural elements
2 : structural linguistics
3 : an anthropological movement associated especially with Claude L茅vi-Strauss that seeks to analyze social relationships in terms of highly abstract relational structures often expressed in a logical symbolism
4 : a method of analysis (as of a literary text or a political system) that is related to cultural anthropology and that focuses on recurring patterns of thought and behavior

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Other Words from structuralism

structuralist \ 藞str蓹k-​ch蓹-​r蓹-​list How to pronounce structuralist (audio) , 藞str蓹k-​shr蓹-​ \ noun or adjective

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Right now, the campus religion remains nihilist, meaning-destroying post-structuralism, whose pilfering god, the one-note Foucault, had near-zero scholarly knowledge of anything before or beyond the European Enlightenment. WSJ, "Notable & Quotable: True Religion," 25 Dec. 2018

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First Known Use of structuralism

1907, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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structuralism

noun
struc路​tur路​al路​ism | \ 藞str蓹k-ch蓹-r蓹-藢liz-蓹m, 藞str蓹k-shr蓹- How to pronounce structuralism (audio) \

Medical Definition of structuralism

: psychology concerned especially with resolution of the mind into structural elements

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