ABSTRACT
For both structuralists and poststructuralists, truths are matters of social accord. Yet whereas structuralist discourses tend to be more concerned with the mechanics of knowledge production, poststructuralist discourses are attentive to the implications and complications of those claims to truth that come to be taken as the truth. Poststructuralist discourses are not principally concerned with how individuals shape personal understandings of the world, but how understandings of the world are shaped for individuals-indeed how individuals’ own identities are shaped.
