How does the use of the term civilization by historians differ from that of popular usage? how do you use the term?

In popular usage, civilization infers superiority which is advanced behavior of a higher form of society is seen as unreservedly positive this idea suggest that other forms of living must be uncivilized which normally implies inferiority. Historians remain to use the term civilizations because the term is deeply set in our way of thinking about the world. There is no alternative term and we need to make differences among different kinds of human communities. They use civilization pure as a descriptive term designating a specific type of human society without implying any judgement in any sense of superiority or inferiority. Civilization is used to express broad cultural arrays in particular geographic regions distinguishing that many people living in those regions may have been more aware of differences and encounters than of those commonalities.

i would go with the last one