Definition
Structuralism
Structuralism is the idea that things (like words, ideas, or social customs) are not intelligible in isolation. Instead, they derive their meaning from their interrelations with other items within a larger system. The invisible, underlying network of these relationships is the “structure” that structuralism seeks to uncover.
Meaning is created through a stable, self-contained system of relationships and differences. The structure itself is the source of meaning