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Structuralism states we are governed by narrow cultural structures.

I believe post-modernism and post-structuralism acknowledge the existence of this structures as well.

Is the difference in the attitude towards the structure? Like post-modernism wants to deconstruct some category like gender, while structuralism adhere to the natural categorization.

Please correct me, if I made any wrong assumptions.

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    Yes. [Structuralism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism) is "the methodology that implies that elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a broader system. It works to uncover the structures that underlie all the things that humans do, think, perceive, and feel." – Mauro ALLEGRANZA Nov 25 '20 at 14:39
  • Thanks. But what about post-modernism, as far as I understand it also believes in the existence of cultural structures, it just considers them bad. Is the difference in the value judgement. – Borut Flis Nov 26 '20 at 23:12

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To illustrate the difference using two writers usually held up as examples of the respective categories, Claude Lévi-Strauss (Structuralist) tries to demonstrate that the same universal structures, especially binary oppositions, underlie all human thought across different societies. Michel Foucault (Poststructuralist) acknowledges that all societies are governed by a structure (episteme), but doesn't use a universal formula in order to uncover it; thus his studies tend to highlight the unusual.

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