STRUCTURALISM


Meaning of STRUCTURALISM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈstrək-chə-rə-ˌli-zəm, ˈstrək-shrə- ]

noun

Date: 1907

1. : psychology concerned especially with resolution of the mind into structural elements

2. : structural linguistics

3. : 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

4. : 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

• struc·tur·al·ist -list noun or adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.