From Structuralism to Post structuralism

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Structuralism, is known based on principles such as holism, discovering the structure hidden behind the reality of the society, the common culture dominating the human being, contagion of lingual rules to social activities, solving the cultural systems with dualistic encounters, ignoring date and time, disapproving subjectivism, incommensurability of structures, and considering the internal and external structures in the French school (lingual structures) and American school (societal structures). The similarity of structuralism and post-structuralism is in their criticism of the common understanding of subject and historicism.
The following specifications can be noted in the passage of structuralism to post-structuralism, in other words from modernism to postmodernism: language as an unclear media shapes the reality and is considered a societal phenomenon and a means of political combat. Subjects are originally societal and the role of discourse and context is seriously considered.

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