STRUCTURALISM

noun Date: 1907 psychology concerned especially with resolution of the mind into structural elements, structural linguistics, 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, a method of analysis (as of a literary text or a political system) that is related to cultural anthropology and that focuses on recurring patterns of thought and behavior, structuralist noun or adjective