Dictionary

structuralism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English structural Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English structuralism From structural + -ism.

Meanings

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.
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.

Forms

Deriveds

antistructuralism · poststructuralism · post-structuralism

Relateds

structuralist

Synonyms

existentialism

Translations (20)

vi chủ nghĩa cấu trúc (theory that a human language is a self-contained structure) · el δομισμός (theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure) · el δομισμός (school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness) · mn бүтэцийн онол (theory that a human language is a self-contained structure) · pl strukturalizm (school of biological thought) · ru структурали́зм (theory that a human language is a self-contained structure) · pl strukturalizm (school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness) · mn бүтэц судлал (theory that a human language is a self-contained structure) · pl strukturalizm (theory that a human language is a self-contained structure) · kk құрылымшылдық (theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure) · kk структурализм (theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure) · cmn 結構主義 /结构主义 (theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure) · fi strukturalismi (school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness) · fi strukturalismi (school of biological thought) · cmn 結構主義 /结构主义 (theory that a human language is a self-contained structure) · fi strukturalismi (theory that a human language is a self-contained structure) · ja 構造主義 (theory that a human language is a self-contained structure) · pl strukturalizm (theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure) · fi strukturalismi (theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure) · fr structuralisme (theory that a human language is a self-contained structure)