most all members of this so-called movement denied that they were part of it. Structuralism is closely related to semiotics. Post- structuralism attempted to distinguish itself from the use of the structural method. Deconstruction was an attempt to break with structuralistic thought. Some intellectuals like Julia Kristeva, for example, took structuralism(and Russian Formalism) as a starting point to later become prominent post-structuralism. Structuralism has had varying degrees of influence in the social sciences: a great deal in the field of sociology, but hardly any in economics.