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[[Structuralism]], a major current of [[thought ]] in the second half of the twentieth century, developed in [[France ]] from the 1960s onward in reaction to [[existentialism ]] and [[humanism]]. From a methodological point of view, in the [[analysis ]] and [[understanding ]] of "[[objects]]" (especially those in the [[social ]] [[sciences]]), it tended to see "[[structures]]" as pre-eminent and to see the given and its directly observable features as mere "effects." [Ed: [[Quotes ]] indicate [[jargon ]] [[terms ]] in structuralism.]Arising from the [[linguistics ]] of Ferdinand de [[Saussure ]] and in...