structuralist
noun(struc-tur-al-ism)
psychology concerned especially with resolution of the mind into structural elements
structuralist
noun(struc-tur-al-ism)
structural linguistics
structuralist
noun(struc-tur-al-ism)
an anthropological movement associated especially with Claude Lévi-Strauss that seeks to analyze social relationships in terms of highly abstract relational structures often expressed in a logical symbolism
structuralist
noun(struc-tur-al-ism)
a movement or theory (such as deconstruction) that views the descriptive premise of structuralism as contradicted by reliance on borrowed concepts or differential terms and categories and sees inquiry as inevitably shaped by discursive and interpretive practices