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This 10 page paper looks at the contributors to this twentieth century school of thought. Freud, Marx and De Saussure's contributions are explored in depth. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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It is also something that is found most frequently in the humanities as well as in social science disciplines (2003). It is both vague and flexible. Structuralism actually analyzes
large systems through the examination of the relationships and functions of the tiniest elements of these systems (2003). While this way of thinking is acceptable today, it is
something that actually evolved from the works of those from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century thinkers. The theorists who are most responsible for the evolution of this new
model are Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx and Ferdinand de Saussure. From these three brilliant minds came a new way of processing information and evaluating the world. Again, structuralism is
found in a variety of disciplines from psychology to sociology to anthropology. In anthropology for example, and in myth studies, Claude Levi-Strauss was responsible for introducing structuralist thinking ("Structuralism,"
2003). Like Freud, Marx and de Saussure, Levi-Strauss was an important part of the phenomena. Many people in fact had gotten on the bandwagon. The fact that it has been
so popular begs the question, what is structuralism and structural analysis anyway? Structural analysis is responsible for looking at "unconscious infrastructures" that are related to cultural phenomena ("Structuralism," 2003).
It examines elements of infrastructures and sees them as "relational," but by no means independent things (2003). It is this type of thinking that is the basis for social
psychology and sociology. Finally, such an analysis provides the general laws which accounts for an underlying organizational pattern (2003). It is interesting to note that those out of
the realm of social science, or the ordinary American citizen, rarely thinks in such terms. They look at people as having individual lives and choices. They do not see themselves
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