Structuralism decentered individual agency that culturalism treated as authentic

Evidence

The difference is that, whereas culturalism would correct the hyper-structuralism of earlier models by restoring the unified subject (collective or individual) of consciousness at the center of “the Structure,” discourse theory, by way of the Freudian concepts of the unconscious and the Lacanian concepts of how subjects are constituted in language (through the entry into the Symbolic and the Law of Culture), restores the decentered subject, the contradictory subject, as a set of positions in language and knowledge, from which culture can appear to be enunciated. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 204 (#expands, via linked claim)

For such a thing as vocation to be possible, there must exist that harmony, whatever its origin, between the structure and development of society, and individual qualities and impulses. It is this general premise that constitutes the ultimate basis of the idea that for every personality there exist a position and a function in society to which he is called and which he must seek and find. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 191 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668; Structuralism inverts culturalism’s claim by making experience an effect of categories; Structuralism introduced a new kind of non-reflective causality between social and mental categories. (+9 more)

Related

• Culture is inherently decentered and resists direct linkage to other structures (similarity 0.90)
• Discourse theory restores a decentered subject while culturalism restores a unified consciousness (similarity 0.86)
• Linguistics decentered identity by showing subjects are positioned in pre-existing discourse (similarity 0.85)
• Culturalism’s totality reduces to the simple unity of praxis with homologous contradictions. (similarity 0.85)
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. (similarity 0.84)
• The discursive turn requires reintroducing the subject as non-unitary and internally contradictory (similarity 0.82)
• Subjects are constituted by unconscious cultural categories rather than their authors (similarity 0.81)
• Structuralism holds that culture speaks the subject rather than the reverse. (similarity 0.81)
• The discursive perspective reintroduces non-unitary subjectivity that structuralism had abolished (similarity 0.81)
• Structuralism introduced a new kind of non-reflective causality between social and mental categories. (similarity 0.79)
• Discourse theory merely relocates contradiction from structure to the unconscious. (similarity 0.78)
• Structuralist social analysis mistakes ongoing praxis for fixed synchronic being. (similarity 0.78)
• Society presupposes a harmony between its structure and individual inner callings (similarity 0.78)
• Structuralism reframed culture study from decoding social contents to cracking codes (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Discourse theory restores a decentered subject while culturalism restores a unified consciousness #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 204
• Society presupposes a harmony between its structure and individual inner callings #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 191