On a structuralist account of logic, the logical operators, as well as modal operators are defined by the specific ways that they interact with respect to implication. As a consequence, the same logical operator (conjunction, negation etc.) can appear to be very different with a variation in the implication relation of a structure. We illustrate this idea by showing that certain operators that ...

This article explores the antagonism expressed by two different theoretical positions within medical anthropology towards the structural violence position: the culture as central approach and the post-structuralist approach. While medical anthropologists trained in cultural models of illness are disappointed by the lack of culture in the structural violence approach, medical anthropologists tra...

Studies of beliefs about social stratification have generally focused on how individual-level factors shape people’s explanations of poverty and inequality. In this article, the authors contribute to this literature by adding a community-level measure of “concentrated disadvantage” (poverty and associated conditions) to models predicting support for individualistic (person-centered) and structu...

The history of occupational therapy may be understood as a continual transaction between two cultural discourses: pragmatism and structuralism. Pragmatism is a way of thinking that presupposes humans are agentic by nature and knowledge is tentative and created within particular contexts. Structuralism is a way of thinking that assumes humans are composites of recurring general frameworks and th...

In this work we present a logical reconstruction of Leonard Bloomfield’s theory of structural linguistics. First, the central notions of this theory are analyzed and discussed. In the following section, a reconstruction with the so-called structuralist approach in the philosophy of science is presented. After defining the general framework of Bloomfield’s theory, questions of lawlikeness and th...

structure to fit a given situation, one makes clear the principal function of theory as an imaging process, that is, as a description of observed reality. Psychologically speaking, there is no possibility of an involvement of the pupil's person as there is in the less precise concept of science's providing "explanations", where assent is essential. One benefit of the structuralist method mentio...

Kevin Kelly, a futurist, puts forth the idea of seventh kingdom to add six-kingdom classification. He labels this as “technium.” It refers all things invented by humans and includes, but is certainly not limited to, such phenomena Internet (Lobo, 2017). The language that has developed result emergence some technium (for instance, social media) now integrating into, sending shockwaves through hu...

According to the French Structuralist Gerard Genette, the term “point of view” is not an all-comprehensive one for the discussion of narration because, in his view, there is often a difference between the person who tells about an event and the person who sees it. He has, thus, proposed the term “focalization” to make a distinction between the two components of narration. Later critics also pro...

Three competing theories have been used to explain participation in the undeclared economy. A structuralist perspective asserts that workers are pushed into work because of their “exclus...