The papers in this special issue are introduced as exemplars of a new structuralist project in cultural analysis. The work is situated with respect to two sociological traditions, social network analysis which lends a style of structuralist methodology and the new institutionalism which provides a conception of institutions as objects of analysis. The problem of structural duality is highlighted, both in terms of how it relates to the study of institutional logics and in terms of the structuralist methods that can be used for analyzing mutually constitutive orders of institutional systems.