What's Structuralism?

 What's Structuralism? By Naeem Khan

In sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, structuralism is a general theory of culture and methodology that implies that elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a broader system.

Structuralism is a mode of knowledge of nature and human life that is interested in relationships rather than individual objects or, alternatively, where objects are defined by the set of relationships of which they are part and not by the qualities possessed by them taken in isolation.

Structuralism sought to analyze the adult mind (defined as the sum total of experience from birth to the present) in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fit together in complex forms.

Structuralism proposes that the structure of conscious experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and sensations.

According to structuralism,  an experience should be evaluated as a fact, as it exists without analyzing the significance or value of that experience.