structuralism (English, noun)
expansion: structuralism (countable and uncountable, plural structuralisms)
Senses:
glosses: A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure.
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topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A school of biological thought that deals with the law-like behaviour of the structure of organisms and how it can change, emphasising that organisms are wholes, and therefore that change in one part must necessarily take into account the inter-connected nature of the entire organism.
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topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence.
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topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness, how they are organized into more complex experiences, and how these mental phenomena correlate with physical events.
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topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the philosophy of mathematics, a theory that holds that mathematical theories describe structures, and that mathematical objects are exhaustively defined by their place in such structures.
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Forms:
form: structuralisms
tags: plural