Cultural theory is a formalized way of speaking about culture using certain terminologies. We saw theory as an organized set of ideas, an explanatory framework, a position that we take, a comprehensive explanation and general idea or a proposition. We also saw that theory is important because theory shows the workings of ideology, consciousness, maps of meaning and doctrine .
The structuralist understanding of culture is concerned with the ‘systems of relations' of an underlying structure (usually language) and the grammar that makes meaning possible. It is concerned with the systems of relations of an underlying structure usually, language.