Structuralism holds that culture speaks the subject rather than the reverse.

Evidence

The culturalists had defined the forms of consciousness and culture as collective. But they had stopped far short of the radical proposition that, in culture and in language, the subject was “spoken by” the categories of culture in which he/she thought, rather than “speaking them.” These categories were, however, not merely collective rather than individual productions: they were unconscious structures. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the core structuralist inversion of the speaking subject.
• XREF: Directly opposes the culturalist claim (from culturalism in this chapter) that experience grounds consciousness. — connects to: Conviviality depends on structural tools rather than user character. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 58