Encounters with structure

Abstract

A discussion of poststructuralism may be helped by reflecting on the trajectory of ideas and practices that produced it. Structuralism as an intellectual movement has had a bad press and doubtless some of that is deserved. But structuralism was more diverse and creative, and structural analysis as a procedure in social science is more important, than many now acknowledge. In this paper the author takes as data his own experience as a social scientist, and explores one trajectory through structuralism and beyond.

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Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia. Email. [email protected]

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R. W. Connell *

Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia. Email. [email protected]