[struc.tur.al.ism] n (1907) 1: psychology concerned esp. with resolution of the mind into structural elements
2: structural linguistics
3: an anthropological movement associated esp. with Claude Levi-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 n or adj