struc|tur|al|ism

struc|tur|al|ism
struc|tur|al|ism «STRUHK chuhr uh LIHZ uhm», noun.
1. Psychology. the study of the structure of consciousness, or what it consists of, as opposed to its function, or what it does.
2. = structural linguistics. (Cf.structural linguistics)
3. a method of understanding human culture by viewing it as a complex system of interrelated parts. French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss developed structuralism by adapting the methods of structural linguistics to anthropology.
4. any study or theory which regards structure as more important than function.

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