noun
- Linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse.
- synonyms: structural linguistics
- An anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena.
- synonyms: structural anthropology
- A sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals.
- synonyms: structural sociology
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