Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralism

Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralism is an approach that examines human culture, myths, and stories as systems of underlying structures—like a language—that shape how we think and perceive the world. He believed that universal patterns and oppositions (such as good versus evil) are embedded in myths and customs across different societies. By analyzing these patterns, structuralism seeks to uncover the shared structures that influence human thought, highlighting the idea that our cultural expressions are interconnected parts of a larger, coherent system of meaning.