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Wikipedia: Structuralism

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The English-language Wikipedia article on structuralism, covering its Saussurean linguistic roots and Claude Lévi-Strauss's application to kinship and myth. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Citation
Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
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Wikipedia: Structuralism
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Claims Backed By This Source (25 claims)

This source backs 25 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 5 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
  • Social Theory and Concepts, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 3 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
  • Kinship and Family Systems, 4 claims: 4 connected.

Well-attested

15

Open Questions

Are the universal mental structures Claude Lévi-Strauss claimed to find in kinship and myth genuinely cross-cultural, or are they an artifact of the analyst's own Western, scientific interpretive framework projected onto other cultures?

Social Theory and Concepts

Structuralism

Sources

Wikipedia: Structuralism

Holds

1

Social Theory and Concepts

Structuralism

Connected

5

Kinship and Family Systems

Avunculocal ResidenceBilateral DescentMatrilineal DescentPatrilineal Descent

Open Questions

Are the universal mental structures Claude Lévi-Strauss claimed to find in kinship and myth genuinely cross-cultural, or are they an artifact of the analyst's own Western, scientific interpretive framework projected onto other cultures?

General References

4

Open Questions

Are the universal mental structures Claude Lévi-Strauss claimed to find in kinship and myth genuinely cross-cultural, or are they an artifact of the analyst's own Western, scientific interpretive framework projected onto other cultures?

Social Theory and Concepts

Structuralism
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