Term sometimes applied to
Althusser's method of describing
human individuals not as having some essential characteristics (see
essentialism) but as the product of
social determinants taking the form of some sort of
social structure, as in
class consciousness, for example. See
Althusserian.
Taken from Words of Art. http://www.ouc.bc.ca/fina/glossary/s_list.html
Robert J. Belton, Okanagan University College