structuralism

English Thesaurus

1. a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	theory,
definition	:	a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena (noun.cognition)

part meronym	:	sociology,
definition	:	the study and classification of human societies (noun.cognition)

2. an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	theory,
definition	:	a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena (noun.cognition)

part meronym	:	anthropology,
definition	:	the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings (noun.cognition)

3. linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	linguistics,
definition	:	the scientific study of language (noun.cognition)