Editing Structuralism (section)

=== Assiter ===
In a later development, [[Feminist theory|feminist theorist]] [[Alison Assiter]] enumerated four ideas common to the various forms of structuralism:<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Assiter|first=Alison|date=June 1984|title=Althusser and structuralism|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/BJS/pastVolumes/vol35/index284.aspx|journal=British Journal of Sociology|volume=35|issue=2|pages=272–296|doi=10.2307/590235|jstor=590235|access-date=2013-07-15|archive-date=2018-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002060829/http://www.lse.ac.uk/BJS/pastVolumes/vol35/index284.aspx|url-status=dead|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

# a structure determines the position of each element of a whole;
# every system has a structure;
# structural laws deal with co-existence rather than change; and 
# structures are the "real things" that lie beneath the surface or the appearance of meaning.