Each given culture will form the world according to different structures of meaning. But since the entire world is grasped through such a system of linguistic terms, it is very easy by this route to arrive at a situation where the relation of the given society to the world has been reduced to one of the society to itself, to a closed system of terms. This certainly makes the world-view of the given society intelligible , but not necessarily comprehensible . Just so long things remain as they are, then structuralism is a fine method of making things intelligible, and a great step forward from the dogmatic, normative, judgmental methods of European sciences when they have been required to objectively understand cultures other than their own. And certain types of dysfunction also become intelligible of course.
Life is a material thing.
Human beings are not abstractions. Thought must abstract. In order to take a step forward in a separate branch of science, it is necessary to have an approach which makes it possible to put to the side inessential material and work for a time at least, with what may be deemed to be essential.