What is Structuralism? (See link below for "What is Post-Structuralism?")

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https://www.stuvia.com/doc/1219051/structuralism-and-poststructuralism-meaning-and-key-concepts

Structuralism is one of the most influential intellectual movements in the twentieth-century which embraces a wide variety of intellectual disciplines, such as linguistics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, and psychoanalysis. But it must be noted that structuralism is above all a “method”.

As a method, structuralism aims to analyze isolated events or meanings in terms of their underlying structural laws. It seeks to comprehend “particulars” by describing their interrelationship within the totality of general codes which govern them. It also looks for the deep and other hidden structures beneath the surface manifestations of meaning.

Structuralism, therefore, can be broadly defined as an attempt to unify the human sciences by applying a single methodology derived from Ferdinand de Saussure’s model of linguistics. As is well known, Ferdinand de Saussure is generally recognized as the founding father of the structuralist method of analysis.

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