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A physical or conceptual structure extended or developed from a basic form.
The part of a building or other structure above the foundation.
The parts of a ship's structure above the main deck.
The rails, sleepers, and other parts of a railway.
In Marxist theory, the ideologies or institutions of a society as distinct from the basic processes and direct social relations of material production and economics.

I was looking for a link to #3... - Amgine 18:40, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I agree. I'm not familiar with the social science use of the word, and only knew the engineering use.

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How is each section confusing? How does each section need to be cleaned up? Hyacinth 09:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC) I guess the marxist section could use a little "dumbing up" I was looking for clarification and am a little more confused

What is confusing or hard to understand? What needs clarification? Hyacinth 01:47, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

This article is written in a way which laymen would find dizying to read. Not really encyclopedia material.

I agree. There is a lot of jargon. It seems to be written for those already familiar with the material (Karmiw 22:32, 28 January 2007 (UTC))

Please sign your posts on talk pages per Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. Thanks! Hyacinth 01:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

To help understand the Marxist section, I wrote this explanation of the block quote.

Without man's control, he enters in to a relation that binds social productions and material productions. Meaning, he becomes connected to the group of connections between social and material productions. The relations he becomes connected to are, overall, the base structure of his society. This structure builds up a legal and political superstructure. This new superstructure corresponds to the definite forms of social consciousness, as in the varied perceptions of social entities. The mode of production is the force that pushed man into this relation. Man's perception of social, political, and intellectual life was given to him by this mode of production. Therefore, the mode of production gives man his perception of life. At a certain stage during the modes of production the material productive forces of society, which are the forces that produce the materials and the labor power, conflict with either the relation of production or the property relations within the structure the relations have existed in. These relations, that conflicted with the material productive forces, change into shackles. Once they change into shackles a time of social revolution begins. The social revolution will cause economic change and the foundations of these economic changes will, in turn, change the overall structure of the society. When studying this type of change it is necessary to distinguish the differences between material transformation and the current economic conditions of the production. These two can be determined by natural science and the ideological forms ( either legal, political, religious, artistic or philosophical) that the men of the society have used to perceive the new conflict. The only way men can judge this period revolutionary change is to compare it to the conflict, that is between the material productive forces, to the current relation of productive forces.

I do not want to post it if anyone has any conflict with it, so let me know if you do and tell me what you think before I put it in. If there are no responses in a few days or so I will just place it under the quote explaining that it is, well, explaining the quote. Zaxor0 01:01, April 6 2007 (UTC)Zaxor0 01:03, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

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Why and how should this article be split? Hyacinth 09:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC) Template removed at some point. Hyacinth 01:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)