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Structuralism

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

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

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