Post-Structuralism
by Tanja Tuulikki Välisalo
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last modified
Mar 09, 2010 02:09 PM
Post-structuralism stresses the view that different cultural and social meanings are formed in research.
- A priori structures in cultures or societies do not exist
- knowledge and truths about structures are always subjective.
- generated as a critic towards structuralism
- is a loose denominator for various orientations in philosophy of science or theories of knowledge, which stress subjectivity and criticise a priori truths and holistic explanation models.
Post-structuralism, like deconstruction, is related to postmodern thinking.
Links to more information:
Post-structuralism. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Lye, John, 1997. Some Post-Structural Assumptions. Brock University.
Thwaite, Mark, 2004. What is poststructuralism? ReadySteadyBook.
Jones, Roger. Post Structuralism.
