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Structuralism

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena

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a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals

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linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse

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structural anthropologystructural linguisticsstructural sociology
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