structuralism
/ˈstrʌktʃərəlɪzəm/noun
mass noun
1- a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behaviour, culture, and experience, which focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity结构主义（对人类认知、行为、文化和经验进行解释和分析的一种方法, 聚焦于概念系统中各要素间的对比关系, 这些要素反映了表面差异所潜在的模式）。
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- the doctrine that structure is more important than function结构重于功能的学说, 结构至上论。
Originating in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure, and extended into anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss, structuralism was adapted to a wide range of social and cultural studies, especially in the 1960s, by writers such as Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser, and Jacques Lacan.
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