Construct it

Structuralism seems to have many concepts and ideas working within it. To say i understand them all, or even some, would be a complete lie. To be honest i will probably walk in to tomorrows class with one or two basic concepts of structuralism, and hear about a billion more ideas thrown around the room by you all and by Dr. M. The trend is i will walk out with one or two more ideas. I guess the idea of this class is to piece this and that together and figure it out for your own. the thing that i dont particularly like is that each form of theory is so dense, and every week we are reading something new, and to be honest it confuses me very much so. I just delated an entire blog that i wrote because i thought i was writing it all Structuralism and it turned out that the main thesis of blof was Liberal Humanist-based. that scares me.
Anyway, now that I'm on the right theory (hopefully) lets talk a little about the "hut" idea. i seemed to have grasped that for the most part. Basicaly words are to be seen as a relation. This means that words do not mean anything without it having a relation to another word. Barry used the hut example with "shed-hut-house-mansion etc"). Suposedly this works when working with opposites. such as how the word "male" is a direct relation to "female" which is the opposite of male. Without the idea that words work as relation to eachother... words would be merely arbritary. Right? So by that standard.. words have no concrete meaning... that language has no fixed meaning.