Chickens, Eggs, and Structuralism: The Basics #anthropology #literarycriticism #structuralism

Added: 2026-06-03

Structuralism argues that meaning does not reside within individual objects or events but is always attributed to them by the human mind and the overarching structures we use to organize our experience; this perspective, rooted in Ferdinand de Saussure's distinction between Langue (the hidden, underlying rules of a system) and Parole (the manifest, everyday examples), suggests that the system precedes and shapes the individual rather than vice versa.