structuralism in English

noun
1
a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.
His work fuses elements of American structuralism , the narrative avant-garde and experimental documentary.
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1. Obviously there are far-reaching differences between early modern metaphysics and post-structuralism.

2. Anthologizing Post-Structuralism: Architecture écriture, Gender, and Subjectivity Karen Burns … the majority of writers in this quasi-generation of architectural theorists are women

3. The term Abjection literally means “the state of being cast off.” The term has been explored in post-structuralism as that which inherently disturbs conventional identity and cultural concepts

4. Post-structuralism differs from most other approaches to international politics because it does not see itself as a theory, school or paradigm which produces a single account of the subject matter.

5. The movements of the 1960s have largely sunk, marxism-leninism has been pulverised, and post-structuralism is Banausic, but Castoriadis' ontological insights prevent him from eternalising the present as Fukuyama does, or Bell did before Fukuyama

6. Where the fact of evolutionary change was accepted but the mechanism proposed by Charles Darwin, natural selection, was denied, explanations of evolution such as Lamarckism, catastrophism, orthogenesis, vitalism, structuralism and mutationism (called saltationism before 1900) were entertained.

7. (born 1938) is a neuroanthropologist known primarily for having co-founded a school of neuroanthropological theory called "Biogenetic structuralism." Laughlin is an emeritus professor of anthropology and religion at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.