Structuralism (disambiguation) explained

Structuralism is a 1949 approach to anthropology and the human sciences in general, derived from linguistics, that attempts to analyze a specific field as a complex system of interrelated parts.

Structuralism may also refer to:

• Structuralism (architecture), movement in architecture and urban planning in the middle of the 20th century
• Structuralism (biology), school of biological thought that deals with the law-like behaviour of the structure of organisms
• Structuralism (international relations), studies the impact of world economic structures on the politics of countries
• Structuralism (linguistics), a 1916 theory that a human language is self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence
• Structuralism (philosophy of mathematics), theory of mathematics as structure
• Structuralism (philosophy of science), theory of science, reconstructing empirical theories
• Structuralism (psychology), a 1879 theory with the goal to describe the structure of the mind
• Structuralism (sociology), also known as structural functionalism
• Structural Marxism, a 1960s approach to Marxist philosophy based on structuralism
• Structural anthropology, a 1949 theory of fundamental components in all cultures, stories and rituals, a so-called "deep grammar"
• Structural film, an experimental film movement prominent in the US in the 1960s and which developed into the Structural/materialist films in the UK in the 1970s