I argue that the structuralist theory suffers from a number of irredeemable flaws that render it of little or no value.
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Structuralist
Synonyms for "structuralist" (13 found)
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semiologistsign analyst
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social system structurespenglerian
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12 entriesanthropological structuralistcultural structuralistlinguistic structuralistliterary structuralistmythological structuralistphilosophical structuralistsemiotic structuraliststructuralist analysisstructuralist interpretationstructuralist methodologystructuralist readingtextual structuralist
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9 entriesanthropological structuralistlinguistic structuralistliterary structuraliststructuralist analysisstructuralist approachstructuralist critiquestructuralist methodologystructuralist readingstructuralist theory
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The move from the structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
Source: tatoeba (12882500)
For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
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