structuralism

IPA: strˈʌktʃɝʌɫɪzʌm

A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure.
(biology) A school of biological thought that deals with the law-like behaviour of the structure of organisms and how it can change, emphasising that organisms are wholes, and therefore that change in one part must necessarily take into account the inter-connected nature of the entire organism.
(linguistics) The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence.
(psychology) A school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness, how they are organized into more complex experiences, and how these mental phenomena correlate with physical events.
(mathematics) In the philosophy of mathematics, a theory that holds that mathematical theories describe structures, and that mathematical objects are exhaustively defined by their place in such structures.

Examples of "structuralism" in Sentences

It seems then that, once adopted, it is not be called structuralism at all!
But in the late Sixties there was an explosion of so-called structuralism in
In the 1960s a new school of thought, known as structuralism, rose to challenge this view (See Nov. 3).
Throw in structuralism and things start to get really weird where the final divorce papers from the analysis of texts arrive.
It is a feast for the senses and, paired with Gehr's criminally underseen 1976 masterwork Table, reaffirmed the purely aesthetic pleasures to be gleaned from Gehr's so-called structuralism of the 70s.
So in a twist typical of Deleuze, a twist in which the form of his thought maps its content, we're not trying to “recognize” structuralism, that is, produce a finite set of necessary and sufficient conditions so that we can judge something as falling within the category of
By closely reading the famous poem "The Star" by Jane Taylor, this essay delineates some of the poetic forms involved in the inscription of environmental awareness, such as minimalism, and the foregrounding of what in structuralism is called the "contact" or medium of communication.
I was thinking of returning to graduate school; I asked a friend who had recently finished his PhD at a good program in the Northeast and who has since earned a reputation for himself in Victorian studies for an introductory list of titles on structuralism, which is what literary theory was called at the time.