While there is great interest in these formal approaches especially the so-called information-processing model of the mind there is already a growing sense that they have not worked out as well as had been hoped. Structuralism is out of favor,and there are more and more phenomena being investigated in the human sciences, such as the role of prototypes in psychology or self-interpreting social practices in anthropology, that do not fit well with the information-processing model. As researchers are coming to question the role of theory in their disciplines, they are becoming interested in interpretive methods that take into account meaning and context.