Structualism and post-structualism

Structuralism and post –structuralism

Ten key words:

·         Postmodernism

·         Foucault

·         Barthes

·         Deco structuralism

·         Semiotics

·         Focus on meaning

·         Believe in structure

·         Language and speech

·         Paradigm

·         Levi-Strauss

·         Sociology

·         Barthes

·         Creating their own meanings to the secondary text

 Five other words:

• Preffered and oppisitional reading Stuart Hall
• Marxism
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My own summary:

Structuralism is the idea of how everything is society has got a basic structure which therefore influences an individual’s behaviour. However, the term post-structuralism refers to how we the audiences create our own meanings to the secondary texts and how we interpret it.