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Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Structuralism is what?!

okk so i was pretty mythd at this to begin with but il try to convey what i managed to take in.

Basically i came to the conclusion that structuralism is what we make of a subject/thin. The term first brought about by Claude Levi Stance it is how we make meaning and gain an understanding of a thing.

Another term linked to structuralism is binary opposition. This is quite simply the difference between the obvious, for example:

  • Good and Dad
  • Light and Dark
  • Win and Loose
  • Male and Female
  • Hot and Cold

Ok. now getting somewhere, but is that it? 1 or 2, A or Z, what about the bit in between? Commonly known as the grey area, simply because not everything falls between one or the other but on the middle instead.

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