"structural contradiction" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a situation in which two components of a system are mutually exclusive or incompatible with each other. For example, "The company offers a benefit plan that includes both full-time and part-time employees, but this creates a structural contradiction in their budget."
The FT economic model faces a structural contradiction.
"Point of View as a Structural Contradiction in Ronald Ruiz's Happy Birthday Jesús". American Literature Association Conference.
The closely contested presidential election of 2000, which many analysts felt was decided by voters for the Green Party, cast a spotlight on a structural contradiction of American politics.
The rebellion of the offspring regarding values and their instrumental reliance on their parents constitute the structural contradiction of the relationship.
There is, however, a structural contradiction between the state-dominated media system and the ongoing media marketization process in contemporary China, which is manifested in the discursive negotiation between partisanship and professionalism of Chinese media workers.
It is not the result of technological change, but the response to the structural contradiction between a global system and a national state (Castells and Cardoso 2005, p. 15 16).
However, as the collective face of the new signorial state, petty officials also drew attention to structural contradictions in these problematic regimes.
But Gorbachev's reforms were undermined by structural contradictions in the economy and the one-party state, as Kotkin demonstrates, although it is unclear whether he believes the system was reformable at all.
I finished my introduction to Economy and Society, I took a Masters Degree in Sociology and the Ph.D.orals and started working for my Ph.D. dissertation on Structural Contradictions and Organizational Response in American Higher Education.
Many serious economists warned that the currency union as devised in the 1990s was seriously flawed and might come apart, because of what in the good old Marxist days people used to call "structural contradictions".
They should look for structural contradictions and devise a solution that can be implemented with existing means and resources.
