Measurement
Measurement is the estimation or determination of extent, dimension or capacity, usually in relation to some standard or unit of measurement. The measurement is expressed as a number of units of the standard, such as distance being indicated by a number of miles or kilometers.
The process of measuring involves estimating the ratio of the magnitude of a quantity to the magnitude of a unit of the same type. A measurement is the result of such a process, expressed as the product of a real number and a unit, where the real number is the estimated ratio. An example is 9 metres, which is an estimate of an object's length relative to a unit of length, the metre. Unlike a count, or integer quantity of items that is known exactly, every measurement is an estimate that has some uncertainty
Culture
Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it comprises systems of manners, religion, rituals, dress, language, norms of performance and systems of belief.
The term culture, from the Latin colo, with its root sense "to cultivate", generally refers to patterns of human commotion and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Dissimilar definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical bases for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human action. Anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the widespread human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their practices symbolically. This capacity is long been taken as a defining feature of the species Homo. However, primatologists such as Jane Goodall have identified features of culture among our closest relatives in the animal kingdom
Today, some anthropologists have connected the project of cultural studies. Most, however, reject the recognition of culture with consumption goods. Furthermore, many now reject the notion of civilization as bounded, and consequently reject the notion of subculture. Instead, they see culture as a multifaceted web of shifting patterns that link people in different locales and that link social formations of dissimilar scales. According to this outlook, any collection can construct its own cultural identity.
