Several sociologists have observed that the word “culture,” though commonly used in academic literature, is an ultimately hazy concept-for example, Victoria Bonnell and Lynn Hunt have noted that “many critics have pointed to the vagueness of the concept of culture.” Does the concept of culture encompass knowledge, or laws, or both these things and others? For casual usage, such haziness is permissible-we know culture when we see it-but for researchers, a standardization of the term is called for if sociology is to truly progress.
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mediumWhich choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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It lists two essential components of what is referred to by Bonnell and Hunt as “culture.”
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It presents a point regarding the definition of “culture” on which nonspecialists and specialists tend to disagree.
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It describes the questions first raised by Bonnell and Hunt’s inquiry into the meaning of the word “culture.”
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It illustrates a difficulty associated with the meaning of “culture” that the author believes holds back an academic field.