How Does the Everyday Usage of the Term "Culture" Differ

question 45

Multiple Choice

How does the everyday usage of the term "culture" differ from its academic definition?

• A) The common usage reflects a desirable quality that can be acquired.
• B) The academic definition reflects traits that are only possessed by a segment of the population.
• C) The common usage deals only with patterns that have been passed down for generations.
• D) The academic definition is narrower than the common usage.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.

Variance

Variance measures the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how spread out the data is.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is calculated as the square root of the variance.

Coefficient Of Variation

A measure of relative variability calculated as the standard deviation divided by the mean, often expressed as a percentage.