0 a way of studying human culture, for example language, literature, art, or anthropology, that emphasizes the importance of its basic structures and the relationships between its parts
Paying lip service to or totally ignoring mathematics became a widespread attitude in (nongenetic) structuralism.
Against the background of structuralism, the signified is a meaning.
According to structuralism, on the contrary, meaning is liberated through 'tearing apart' these units into negative, opposable features.
There is also a brief overview of theoretical approaches to phonology ranging from structuralism through optimality.
One last-resort attempt at salvaging structuralism indeed distinguished between the true scientific uses of structures and the merely ideological ones.
Some say that structuralism is more a method, a set of heuristic tools, to order ethnographic material.
For me, structuralism is a method of analysis, more than an explanatory theory of man and culture.
And although the dialogue between mathematics and structuralism failed to be sustained, this fortuitous encounter was the seed of a lasting cultural connection.
