The second (individual) assessment requires you to discuss the application of structuralism to one of the following campaigns: 1. Biden (Democrat) v Trump (Republican) election campaign, USA...

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APPLICATION OF STRUCTURALISM
TOPIC 1: BIDEN (DEMOCRAT) v TRUMP (REPUBLICAN) ELECTION CAMPAIGN, USA 2020
Introduction
Joe Biden worked as a former vice-President under the Democratic Party of the United States and he has now won the election and presently the President of the U.S. On the other hand, Donald John Trump remained as a President for Republican Party of the United States. Both of them are well educated and well managed in the country. However, now out of various changed circumstances, Donald Trump had to leave the Chair of Presidency and hand it over to Joe Biden. Both of them differ a lot from each other in terms of adoption of various policies, taxes, immigration, administration and many more, which will be highlighted in this essay.
Thesis Statement
The role of Structuralism in the campaigns of US Presidential candidates for the recent election
Principles of Structuralism
Structuralism is a component of a literary theory that originated from France and came to the United States of America in the early part of 1960. The main movement of structuralism attempted in understanding languages through scientific studies. It tries to account for every kind of human thought, their behavior as well as their speech and actions. The theorists of structuralists are more interested in the identification and analysis of structures that are underlying all kinds of cultural phenomenon (Atmana, 2019).
It is not just focused on literature. A structuralist is always on finding the innate elements that comprises any system. An analysis of structuralism is not at all concerned with any aspect beyond the interrelationship among units as well as rules. Structuralism reduces complex systems to their ultimate fundamental parts.
Linguistics Structuralism
Relationships among the parts of a language always help us in understanding the meaning. Words do not have any association with reality (Chalmers, 2018). Words are always associated with words. Structuralists consider empiricism as well as historicism to be the dirtiest parts of the vocabulary of social science.
Anthropological Structuralism
Relationships always produce different languages, systems as well as ideas in a society. This kind of theoretical abstraction is always applied to studying kinship of primitive kind as well as myths of Levi Strauss. He has strong arguments that in a primitive society an individual can be totally subordinated to relationships of elements towards underlying structures (Lanham, 2020).
Structural Marxism
Marx inaugurated the modern theory of structuralism by assuming that structure should never be confused with visibility in relations and he even explained the logic hidden behind them. Some structural Marxists are there that share a common interest in the study of structure with that of general structuralists.
Post Structuralism
Post structuralism clearly implies that it has taken over structuralism at some point in history. In the 1960’s and 70’s the two ran side by side and often tracks were crossed. Post structuralism nowadays is sometimes viewed as postmodernist philosophy (Sapiro & Dumont, 2020). One disadvantage can be that an impression can be gathered that it is a single school of thought as well as discipline.
The establishment of Friedman's position is the view that people are people who have complex arrangements of thoughts and convictions, so it is troublesome to make impetus structures that will shape their conduct in unsurprising ways—which compelling public strategy should do. In this origination, the ability of specialists may not get the job done to deliver great approach exhortation.
On the other hand, Friedman stresses that the contribution of lawmakers by any stretch of the imagination, even as the beneficiaries of master exhortation, shows the cooperation of the legislators' constituents in the technocratic project. Along these lines, "epistocracy" is not the lone type of...