Zimmer Centralpulse Is the World's Largest Producer of Replacement Hips

question 141

Multiple Choice

Zimmer Centralpulse is the world's largest producer of replacement hips and knees for orthopedic surgery.It is particularly interested in marketing in the southwestern United States,where a large aging population lives.Which external environmental element most directly explains its continued growth?

• A) economic conditions
• B) political conditions
• C) culture
• D) demography
• E) social forces

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Definitions:

Cultural Relativist

A view that moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really "better" than any other.

Ethical Relativist

Someone who believes that morality is relative to the norms of one's culture, meaning that what is considered moral in one society may be considered immoral in another.

Practices

Customary ways of operation or behavior in a particular area or field, often referred to as the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method.

Cultures

The social behavior, norms, knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.