Human society and behaviour are some of the aspects that have fascinated social scientists across the globe for many years. In line with this, social scientists have sought to understand different aspects of society, culture and human behaviour. Therefore, to achieve their objectives of understanding different aspects of society and culture, some of these scholars and social scientists have developed different intellectual platforms to describe how the society in general functions. One of these intellectual discourses is structuralism. In reference to Runciman (1969) structuralism is defined as an approach to understanding different elements of human culture in relation to the main, larger structure or system in society. Importantly, this paper discusses the application of structuralism to activist campaign, #NeverAgain by Brady using concepts such as myth and framing. Notably, Brady’s #NeverAgain campaign focuses on condemning gun violence and calling for tighter laws and regulations to end and prevent gun violence in the American society.
人类社会和行为是多年来吸引全球社会科学家的一些方面。与此相一致，社会学家试图了解社会、文化和人类行为的不同方面。因此，为了实现理解社会和文化不同方面的目标，这些学者和社会学家中的一些人开发了不同的智力平台来描述社会的一般功能。结构主义是这些知识论述中的一种。参照Runciman（1969），结构主义被定义为一种理解人类文化中与社会中主要的、更大的结构或系统相关的不同元素的方法。重要的是，本文讨论了结构主义在维权运动中的应用，布雷迪使用了神话和框架等概念。值得注意的是，布雷迪的#NeverAgain运动侧重于谴责枪支暴力，并呼吁制定更严格的法律法规，以结束和防止美国社会的枪支暴力。
To begin with, from a structuralism point of view, the hashtag #NeverAgain has little meaning unless it is put in a particular context. In other words, an individual looking at the phrase #NeverAgain will fail to understand its meaning if it not put in a particular context. For example, a person who have travelled to a particular region of the world and had a near death experience might say, “Never Again will I ever to travel to that region”. In this regard, such a person would be affirming his intentions of not going back to a place where he almost his life. Speaking from this point of view, structuralism plays a critical role in helping understand different aspects of human culture and life within a particular context and structure (Ropers-Huilman, 2001). Without such a context and/or structure, it would almost be impossible to understand the intended meaning of certain language or culture. For instance, in the case of the #NeverAgain campaign, it is clear that the proponents of this campaign were in a context of an American society that was marred with incidences of gun violence.
首先，从结构主义的角度来看，#NeverAgain 标签没有什么意义，除非它放在特定的上下文中。换句话说，如果不将其放在特定上下文中，那么查看短语#NeverAgain 的个人将无法理解其含义。例如，一个去过世界某个特定地区并有过濒死体验的人可能会说，“我再也不会去那个地区旅行了”。这么一想，这样的人就肯定了他的心意，不再回到一个几乎他生命的地方。从这个角度来看，结构主义在帮助理解特定语境和结构中人类文化和生活的不同方面起着至关重要的作用（Ropers-Huilman，2001）。如果没有这样的上下文和/或结构，几乎不可能理解某些语言或文化的预期含义。例如，在#NeverAgain 运动的情况下，很明显，该运动的支持者是在一个饱受枪支暴力事件破坏的美国社会的背景下。