structuralism

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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 -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.

English -ism

English structuralism

From structural + -ism.

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Noun

structuralism (countable and uncountable, plural structuralisms)

1. A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure.
2. (biology) 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. (linguistics) The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence.
4. (psychology) 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.

   Synonym: (historical) existentialism

5. (mathematics) 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.

Derived terms

• antistructuralism
• poststructuralism, post-structuralism

Related terms

• structuralist

Translations

theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結構主義 / 结构主义 (zh) (jiégòuzhǔyì)

• Finnish: strukturalismi
• Greek: δομισμός (el) m (domismós)
• Kazakh: структурализм (struwktüwralıyzm), құрылымшылдық (qurılımšıldıq)
• Polish: strukturalizm (pl) m inan

school of biological thought

• Finnish: strukturalismi
• Polish: strukturalizm (pl) m inan

theory that a human language is a self-contained structure

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結構主義 / 结构主义 (zh) (jiégòu-zhǔyì)

• Finnish: strukturalismi
• French: structuralisme (fr) m
• Japanese: 構造主義 (こうぞうしゅぎ, kōzō-shugi)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бүтэц судлал (bütec sudlal), бүтэцийн онол (büteciin onol) (China)

• Polish: strukturalizm (pl) m inan
• Russian: структурали́зм (ru) (strukturalízm)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa cấu trúc (主義構築)

school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness

• Finnish: strukturalismi
• Greek: δομισμός (el) m (domismós)
• Polish: strukturalizm (pl) m inan

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• Czech: ^{(please verify)} strukturalismus m
• French: ^{(please verify)} structuralisme (fr) m

(philosophy of science) view that scientific theories describe structures

• Japanese: 構造説 (こうぞうせつ, kōzōsetsu)

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Etymology

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French 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 -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)bor.

Latin -ismuslbor.

French -isme

French structuralismebor.

Romanian structuralism

Borrowed from French structuralisme. By surface analysis, structural + -ism.

Noun

structuralism n (uncountable)

1. structuralism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	structuralism	structuralismul
genitive-dative	structuralism	structuralismului
vocative	structuralismule