--- date: '2025-06-12' description: and forms. id: Structuralism modified: 2026-06-05 15:08:24 GMT-04:00 tags: - philosophy title: Structuralism created: '2025-06-12' published: '2025-06-12' pageLayout: default slug: thoughts/Structuralism permalink: https://aarnphm.xyz/thoughts/Structuralism.md generator: quartz: v4.6.0 hostedProvider: Cloudflare baseUrl: aarnphm.xyz full: https://aarnphm.xyz/llms-full.txt --- See also: _Known through French thinkers Claude Lévi-Strauss or Piaget, methodological connection in social science to interpret human behaviour/controls under mathematical rules_ The underlying intrinsic to the mind that this structure is universal, in a sense of our own existence. Levi-Strauss reckoned that the way we think about things has been set in place already by cultural factors (mainly language) - so the individual is almost a base through which ‘society’ does its work. Think about it like this - language existed before we were, and will continue after we will be gone, but we think through it and it constrains our understanding. Think of Levi-Strauss as making an argument about society. In all of human history, there have only ever been about nine ways we’ve come up with to actually THINK about society. - Marx (Marxism) makes an argument that society is about economic structures, and all behavior is constrained by it. - Durkheim (structuralism) makes an argument that society is about institutions trying to come into balance with each other, like the organs in a body. > \[!tip\] Important > > But Levi-Strauss (Linguistic Structuralism) is different from these two, because he came AFTER [[thoughts/Freud|Freud]]. Freud was revolutionary, because he reckoned that the individual was important. Levi Strauss > wanted to find a way to maintain that overall sense of some constraining SOCIETY while having the individual still be important.