BINARY OPPOSITIONS- eg: good v evil
| concept | strongly agree | agree | neutral | agree | strongly agree | opposite concept |
| sane | X | insane | ||||
| white | X | black | ||||
| sad | X | happy | ||||
| male | X | female | ||||
| rich | X | poor | ||||
| inside | X | outside | ||||
| destructive | X | in order | ||||
| old | X | young |
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology.
Binary Oppositions :
– texts can be seen to either support the dominant ideologies of a society, which would make it a reactionary text ,or to challenge, question or undermines the dominant ideologies of society, in which case it could be seen as a radical text.
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