Which is the key assumption in Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralism?

A. The human propensity to classify phenomena in certain ways is acquired through enculturation.
B. Cultural patterns determine the human propensity to classify things in certain ways.
C. All myths can be classified as either good or evil.
D. There is a very specific role for human agency in culture, and the structure of cultural patterns determines that role.
E. Human minds have certain universal characteristics that originate in common features of the Homo sapiens brain and lead people everywhere to think similarly regardless of their society or cultural background.


Answer: E

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