What is stucturalism?

Answer 1

Structuralism was the first school of psychology and focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components. Researchers tried to understand the basic elements of consciousness using a method known as introspection. Wilhelm Wundt, founder of the first psychology lab, was an advocate of this position and is often considered the founder of structuralism, despite the fact that it was his student, Edward B. Titchener who first coined the term to describe this school of thought.

While Wundt's work helped to establish psychology as a separate science and contributed methods to experimental psychology and Titchener development of structuralism helped establish the very first "school" of psychology, the structuralism did not last long beyond Titchener's death.

Answer 2

Structuralism is a theoretical approach that analyzes society, language, and culture by looking at the underlying structures that organize them. It focuses on how elements within a system relate to each other and how those relationships create meaning. Structuralism was influential in fields such as anthropology, linguistics, and literary theory.