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Superstructure
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superstructure
1. Nautical any structure above the main deck of a ship with sides flush with the sides of the hull
2. the part of a bridge supported by the piers and abutments
3. (in Marxist theory) an edifice of interdependent agencies of the state, including legal and political institutions and ideologies, each possessing some autonomy but remaining products of the dominant mode of economic production
superstructure [′sü·pər‚strək·chər]
(civil engineering)
The part of a structure that is raised on the foundation.
(naval architecture)
The entire structure of a ship above the main deck.
(solid-state physics)
superlattice
superstructure
1. That part of a building or structure which is above the level of the adjoining ground or the level of the foundation.
2. Any structure built on something else, as a building on its foundation; that part of a structure which receives the live load directly.
Superstructure 

a concept within historical materialism that signifies the totality of ideological relationships, views, and institutions in a given society. The superstructure embraces the state, the political and legal forms of consciousness, and the corresponding institutions, as well as morals, religion, philosophy, and art.
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To a large extent, the approach identifies the infrastructural elements as causes of structural and superstructural phenomena.
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00 Hardcover HC110 Amavilah (economics, Glendale College) builds an economic model based on the assumption that embedded economies (small parts of one economy that differ from but are integrated with the whole) differ from their hosts "because, although infrastructural aspects are similar, the corresponding superstructural elements are dissimilar, making for observed differences in performance.
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Among defenders of liberty, no dispute--say, over the freedom of expression or religion--is comparable to the conflict over the idea of property between the two liberal groups whom de Jasay (2002) defines: one group believes secure property (and consequently, trade) is infrastructural, endogenous, as ancient as humanity itself and prior to politics and the state; the other believes property is superstructural, dependent on a guarantee mechanism that society demands and the state operates.
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