Structure, What Structure?

Coming down to us by way of Saussure's students, we have structuralism. One of the most radical changes in any theoretical movement. Structuralism's importance doesn't so much seem to me to be what it strictly ried to do, but how it changed how theorists think about language. The entire social-constructivist view of reality relies upon the ideas of structuralism. Of course, this has also given rise to contemporary pomo-nihilism, but that hardly removes its importance as a theoretical moment.