Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure.

  2. (countable, uncountable)A school of biological thought that deals with the law-like behaviour of the structure of organisms and how it can change, emphasising that organisms are wholes, and therefore that change in one part must necessarily take into account the inter-connected nature of the entire organism.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence.

    структурали́змstrukturalízm

  4. (countable, uncountable)A school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness, how they are organized into more complex experiences, and how these mental phenomena correlate with physical events.

  5. (countable, uncountable)In the philosophy of mathematics, a theory that holds that mathematical theories describe structures, and that mathematical objects are exhaustively defined by their place in such structures.

More definitions
  • a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals
  • an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena
  • linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Structuralism has value in modern literature.

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Translations

3 languages
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By meaning 1
theory that a human language is a self-contained structure:

Forms

plural: structuralisms
Singularstructuralism
Pluralstructuralisms

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals:structural sociology
  • an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena:structural anthropology
  • linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse:structural linguistics

Word family

4 related words

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