A second sort of critique that has helped to move discussions of difference beyond the idea of “culture” is highlighted in part 2. This line of criticism raises questions over the classical idea of culture as “order,” emphasizing instead questions of partiality, perspective, and -above all- power. The idea of culture as order – standing, like a hobbesian Leviathan, against the ever present threat of chaos and anomie – is, of course, a very well established one in Western thought. Whether styled as the functionalist glue making social cohesion possible (the Durkheimian reading); the abstract code enabling societal communication (the structuralist one); the domain of shared, in tersujective meanings that alone make sense of symbolic social action (the Weberian/Geertzian interpretation), concepts of culture have consistently emphasized the shared, the agreed on, and the orderly.