Levi Strauss: polarities and deconstruction

In the book, Introducing Levi-Strauss, Claude Levi-Strauss states his views of structuralism, the systems, and their opposites. He uses polarities to contrast many of the topics he writes about. A polarity, according to Webster's Dictionary, is "the having or showing of contrary qualities, powers, tendencies, forms, etc." Levi-Strauss demonstrates polarities by presenting his idea of "hot" and "cold" societies. The "hot" society is what he said was the Western societies and he compares them to …

…polarities weak. According to Levi-Strauss' societies, order is maintained and there is no change. If there is no change in the schools then there cannot be any disorder. No longer is there total control by teachers in schools. Students are beginning to have a say in their education. So instead of having black and white in schools there is a gray area when the teachers and students have a say in what goes on together.