structuralism
- n linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse
- n an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena
- n a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals
- I'd still love to get a feel for the post-structuralism stuff you talked about the other day, even though you concluded that it wasn't quite what obama might turn out to be.
- Proceeding from there to an even broader indictment, the crits have borrowed from philosophical realms outside legal thought, including structuralism, semiotics and the "Frankfurt .
- Into this vacuum of thought, structuralism has reared its guidon all over the Gallic intellectual landscape.