Since the birth of structuralism, it has penetrated into every corner of social and political life: as a cultural trend of thought, it involves all kinds of social sciences, such as linguistics, anthropology, psychology, etc. It has become the third major trend of thought in the field of contemporary western literary theory following the New Criticism school of Britain and America and the Phenomenological school of France. It has been argued that, since the 1960s, "structuralist people" have replaced "existentialist people".
