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A sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals
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structuralism
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Structuralism (also known as scientific structuralism or as the structuralistic theory-concept ) is a research program in the philosophy of science , which was first developed in the 1970s by several analytic philosophers .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1891, from structural + -ism .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He does not, as does, say, Jon Elster, challenge structuralism for its putative functionalism. ▪ In contrast to Formalism and structuralism , the New Criticism was empiricist and humanistic. ▪ In effect Lévi-Strauss is making ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure. 2 (label en biology) A school of biological thought that deals with the law-like behaviour of the structure of organisms and how it can change, emphasising ...
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Foucault thus proposes the sexuo-linguistic theory of Jean-Pierre Brisset as an antidote to the anthropocentric structuralisms of Saussure, Lacan, and Chomsky.
The discovery of the importance of the constructed intersubjective space is the essence of the genuinely post-Cartesian paradigms, from structuralism to hermeneutics to genealogy and archaeology and grammatologya point we will return to below.
Hermeneutics focused on the signifieds (LH), which could only be grasped from within by empathic participation, and structuralism focused on the signifiers (RH), which can best be approached in a distancing stance of exterior study.
Foucault, in his archaeological period, outdid them both, situating the both of them (structuralism and hermeneutics) in an episteme (later, dispositif) that itself was the cause and context of the type of people that would even want to do hermeneutics and structuralism in the first place.
Foucault thus proposes the sexuo-linguistic theory of Jean-Pierre Brisset as an antidote to the anthropocentric structuralisms of Saussure, Lacan, and Chomsky.