n.
Pronunciation: ' str ə k-ch ə -r ə - ˌ li-z ə m, ' str ə k-shr ə -
Function: 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