structuralist

We are all structuralists, whether we know it or not.

Already prior to his enrollment to university, he began reading French structuralists.

Second, structuralists believe that every system has a structure.

Therefore, it could be of use to structuralists to see how this mineral was formed.

The structuralists gave you a surreal account of life, as if it had been experienced from outer space.

Structuralists argue that the only way Third World countries can develop is through action by the state.

Instead, structuralists focused on how the creation of art communicates the idea behind the art.

Whereas formalism's focus was the aesthetic experience, structuralists played down response in favor of communication.

This is, then, the meaning structuralists give to the 'relative autonomy' of the state.

Of course, not even structuralists would suggest that such political power would allow the working class to overthrow capitalism.

But here, similarly, Ancient architecture is humanist and modern architecture structuralist.

Extreme structuralists tend to downplay the importance of the gene in understanding biological structure.

Saussurean structuralists believe that it is impossible to establish any true link between the word and the thing.

The structuralists looked at meaningful systems within their social context and analysed meaning as structured in a way analogous to language.

Structuralists would thus argue that the state and its institutions have a certain degree of independence from specific elites in the ruling or capitalist class.

And we were all trained as strict structuralists, Spinvirians.

Third, structuralists are interested in 'structural' laws that deal with coexistence rather than changes.

Chomsky believed that the linguists should be studying the competence of language rather than the performance which was studied by the structuralists.

Structuralists trace it to the workings of a permanent arms economy, necessary both to capitalism and to state capitalism.

The early structuralists analyse relations between larger elements of meaning than is entertained in structural linguistics.

In this he covers some of the same ground as modern day Structuralists and others scholars of language, although he comes to very different conclusions.

Interactionist reject statistical (quantitative) data, a method preferred by structuralists.

Contributors to "Mythologies" base their arguments on some of the most innovative work that has been done by French structuralists.

I don't believe, as many high structuralists do, that to have a formal aesthetic experience you have to drain yourself of passion."

The structuralists are buffoons too.

Her works and opinions have been associated with the structuralist school.

However, structuralist criticism differs from all of them on some important issues.

Its proponents developed methods of structuralist literary analysis during the years 1928-1939.

The combination of these two cultures has a symbolic meaning in the structuralist movement.

The purpose of structuralist explanation is to organize real data in the simplest effective way.

A structuralist approach to an analysis of "existential facts"

In the duality, the Agency has much more influence on its lived environment than past structuralist theory had granted.

That paradox still makes more sense to me than a truckload of Marxist or structuralist theories.

In this basic sense both historical materialism and Marxist political economy are undeniably structuralist.

What strengths do the Marxist approaches contain, whether they be structuralist or instrumentalist?

This was primarily a semantic and structuralist approach to understanding how similar films convey meaning.

He rejected the traditional Marxist view of the proletariat and contested the structuralist movement.

Kuryłowicz did not belong to any of the structuralist linguistic schools.

The music by Okonşar is extremely structuralist and calls for an analytical approach.

Structuralist readings focus on how the structures of the single text resolve inherent narrative tensions.

The structuralist brief, then, is to map out the conventions and rules governing all aspects of social behaviour.

Post-structuralism offers a way of studying how knowledge is produced and critiques structuralist premises.

But 'people are not as stupid as some structuralist philosophers suppose them to be.

This involved describing the languages (using structuralist linguistics), comparing them and predicting learning difficulties.

In particular, he accuses structuralist discourses of holding on to a "center": a privileged term that anchors the structure and does not play.

He pursued a generally structuralist approach.

Taking a structuralist view, Hewitt (1997, p143) defines vulnerability as being:

It tended toward overly structuralist explanations, focusing on the role individual economic relationships in the maintenance of social order (Wolf 1997: 7-9).

As far as literary theory is concerned, it is perhaps this more than anything else which constitutes the structuralist revolution.

While postmodernism is concerned with an architectural style, many different aspects of architecture and urbanism are treated in the structuralist movement.