STRUCTURALISM : CLAUDE LEVI STRAUSS
STRUCTURALISM Arrived in Britain in the late 1960 Provides answers to some questions that academic sociology never raised before Rigorous and systematic theory and methods Offered interdisciplinary outlook Did not carve up social world into pre conceived areas Anti capitalist Anti imperialist Challenges bourgeoisie justification of capitalism and imperialism Link between theory and practice (differ from structural functionalism) STRUCTURALIST SAUSSURE LINGUISTIC All use structure to give meaning to raw material they study All observes such phenomena in terms of interrelationship of its constituent elements JAKOBSON LACAN PSYCHOANALYSIS LAGACHE FOUCAULT HISTORY OF IDEAS GODELIER ANTHROPOLOGY Analogy of Marxism and Existentialism SOCIAL...