Structuralism vs. Post-Structuralism
Structural Functionalism
Key Concepts
- Role
- Norm
- System e.g. cultural, economic, political, religious, social etc.
Post-Structuralism
by Kynan Witters Hicks
Sam Williams
Tess Schloemer
Robert Barnacle
Ratia Tekenet
Defined: "an assemblage of converging themes developed by theorists in the 1960s"
Defined: "systems within systems"
Appelrouth and Edles 2012: 325
Critique of Structuralism
- Fragmentation of meaning
- Decline of the idea of Truth
- Decentering of the subject
Appelrouth and Edles 2012: 325
Appelrouth and Edles 2012: 609
Appelrouth and Edles 2012: 327
Examples
- Government
- Religions
- Economics
- Media
Theorists
"Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?"
- signs vs. floating signifiers
- myths represent human thoughts
does family change?
By Sherry B. Ortner
Michel Foucault
"Trying to understand logic of cultural thinking that consumes the inferiority of women"
Levi Strauss (French Structuralist)
McGee and Warms 2012: 331
- Archeology
- History
- Discursive practices
- Surveillance
- Discourse
- Episteme
Nature
Women
child bearing
McGee and Warms 2012: 320
Sign:
Signifier and Signified
Men
Culture
Projects/Career
Appelrouth and Edles 2012: 610
Appelrouth and Edles 2012: 616
"...it is always culture's project to subsume and transcend nature..."
McGee and Warms 2012: 335
Representative of Structuralism?
- Analyzing universal cultural structure of male-female relationship
- Women - "place in the home"/ reproduction (339)
- Men - sustaining culture
Case Study: Freshman Dorm Housing
At Principia!!!!
At Principia!!!
Talcott Parsons
- American Family
- Roles
- Function
Appelrouth and Edles 2012: 352-355
Appelrouth and Edles 2012: 622-636
Sam Williams
-RC
-RA
- Freshmen
Kynan Witters Hicks
- RC
- RA
- Freshmen
- Positive
- Negative
Surveillance
- RC and RA as Guard
-Freshmen as prisoners
Work Cited
Appelrouth, Scott A. and Laura Desford Edles
2012 Defining Poststructuralism In Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Pp. 609-611 Los Angeles: Sage.
Appelrouth, Scott A. and Laura Desford Edles
2012 Michel Foucault In Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Pp. 616-617. Los Angeles: Sage.
Appelrouth, Scott A. and Laura Desford Edles
2012 Talcott C. Parsons In Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Pp. 327. Los Angeles: Sage.
Appelrouth, Scott A. and Laura Desford Edles
2012 Structural Functionalism In Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Pp. 327. Los Angeles: Sage.
Foucault, Michel
2012 Discipline and Punish. In Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Scott A. Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles, eds. Pp. 622-36. Los Angeles: Sage.
McGee, Jon R. and Richard L. Warms
2012 Structuralism In Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. Pp. 320-22. New York: McGraw Hill.
Ortner, Sherry B.
2012 Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? In Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. Jon R. McGee and Richard L. Warms, eds. Pp. 330-43. New York: McGraw Hill
Parsons, Talcott C
2012 Sex Roles in the American Kinship System. In Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Scott A. Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles, eds. Pp. 352-55. Los Angeles: Sage.