structuralists

Mentioning all sorts of (continental) european writers (yes, some of them "structuralists") that have made explicit, even "rule-based" connections between "game play" and "human action" wouldn't lead anywhere, I guess.

ATITD Tests Psychological Origins of Play 2006

Thus, while Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown argue, for example, that biological ties are the origin of and the model for every kinship tie, the "structuralists," like Lévi-Strauss, following Kroeber and Lowie, emphasize the artificiality of kinship rules.

A Hero of our Time Sontag, Susan 1963

Some critics of Neo-Darwinism, such as structuralists or self-organization proponents, have explicitly disaffirmed intelligent design.

Evolution News & Views 2009

Marx could as easily have used 1 Type A coat = 2 Type B coat, but it would have introduced confusion for no gain in understanding, which is something we leave to the post-structuralists.

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010

For that matter, the new generation of structuralists and post-structuralists reject the Existentialists largely because the view finders of the media facilitate seeing political relations and issues in terms of structures and processes we might never have fathomed or recognized without the mediation of media between us and the world.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Marx could as easily have used 1 Type A coat = 2 Type B coat, but it would have introduced confusion for no gain in understanding, which is something we leave to the post-structuralists.

skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 2 Post 1 skzbrust 2010

Secondly, structuralists believe that every system has a structure.

Wikipedia on Derrida and deconstruction, Foucault and structuralism, postmodernism and discourse 2009

For that matter, the new generation of structuralists and post-structuralists reject the Existentialists largely because the view finders of the media facilitate seeing political relations and issues in terms of structures and processes we might never have fathomed or recognized without the mediation of media between us and the world.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

I tend to think as what I call a “neo-structuralist” in these areas (I.e. a structuralist but with some influence from the post-structuralists).

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home 2010

He fundamentally changed the study of English literature in the 1960s by introducing French theory by post-structuralists such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, and post-Freudians such as Jacques Lacan, into what Sutherland described as "the torpid bloodstream of British academic discourse".

Celebrated critic Frank Kermode dies aged 90 2010