ABSTRACT
My aim, over the preceding chapters, has been to set out Cultural Theory in such a way as to interest, and challenge, those (organisation theorists, new institutionalists, management scientists and so on) who concern themselves with the study of institutions. But in doing this I have done something which those who are already familiar with Cultural Theory will find surprising and, perhaps, shocking. From start to finish I have made no mention whatsoever of «grid» and «group»: the two «dimensions of sociality» that constitute the very heart of all previous expositions of Cultural Theory. A word or two of explanation is in order.
