English-Finnish translations for structuralism

• strukturalismi

Definition of structuralism

• A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure
• The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence
• 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

Related words

• structural
• structurally
• post-structuralism
• infrastructural
• structuralist
• superstructural
• substructural
• poststructuralism
• antistructuralism