Abstract
In 'Anthlopologie structurale' written by Claud Lévi-Strauss in 1958, he gives a certain 'conscious structure' of his structuralism, which seems to be distant from his 'unconscious structure' given in his actual analysis. His concept of 'structure', as Piaget says, should be accepted as a 'model' which is more consistent and more intelligible. From this viewpoint, we need neither admit the transcendentalism of unconsciousness nor deny the diachronic development of structures so as to be a structuralist. Then his dualism of 'ordres conçues' and 'ordres vécues' should also be considered not as the equivalence of Marxist's dualism but as that of sign-evolutionist's stratification model, which is inspired from his own proposal that 'faits sociaux' are approached 'commedes signes'. At the former standpoint, the upper structure is partial and probable projection of the lower one; to the contrary, at the latter standpoint, the meta-structure is the wider and more general synthesis of its sub-structures, as 'l'ordre des ordres'. Sub-structure is literally 'sub', that is, partial.
In conclusion, his method is characterized by the three points; the stratification model of society, isomorphism among the stratified structures, and systematic approach to them. The current of the structuralism is thus understood to be the best fruit of western rationalism since Thomas.
