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The political (rather than analytic or conceptual) critique of binary oppositions is an important part of third wave feminism, post-colonialism, post-anarchism, and critical race theory, which argue that the perceived binary dichotomy between man/woman, civilized/uncivilised, and white/black have perpetuated and legitimized societal power structures favoring a specific majority.
Another concept was borrowed from the Prague school of linguistics, which employed so-called binary oppositions in their research. Roman Jakobson and others analysed sounds based on the presence or absence of certain features, such as "voiceless" vs. "voiced." Lévi-Strauss included this in his conceptualization of the mind's universal structures.
An Opposition (abbreviated as "Opp") is an angle of 180°, which is 1 ⁄ 2 of the 360° ecliptic. Depending on the involved planets, an orb of 5-10° is allowed. [14] An Opposition is said by Ibn Ezra to be the most powerful aspect. An opposition is fundamentally relational but not unifying or blending like a conjunction.
Jupiter opposition occurs when a person’s natal Jupiter (where Jupiter was their chart at birth) aligns with transiting Jupiter (where Jupiter is traveling right now). All Jupiter aspects are ...
Structuralism posits the concept of binary opposition, in which frequently-used pairs of opposite-but-related words (concepts) are often arranged in a hierarchy; for example: Enlightenment/Romantic, male/female, speech/writing, rational/emotional, signified/signifier, symbolic/imaginary, and east/west.
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Dube also points out that binary oppositions in the narrative overshadow shared determinations and neglect crucial evidence. Moreover, the rapid dismissal of binary categories overlooks inherent binarism in social thought, particularly evident in the dominance of the "Meo-state opposition" in the community's oral traditions. [ 5 ]
In a marked–unmarked relation, one term of an opposition is the broader, dominant one. The dominant default or minimum-effort form is known as unmarked; the other, secondary one is marked. In other words, markedness involves the characterization of a "normal" linguistic unit against one or more of its possible "irregular" forms.