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The more technologically advanced a society is, the more marked its members' resistance to technological innovations.
The more technologically advanced a society is, the more aware its members are of technology's drawbacks.
People realize that sophisticated technologies deeply affect the quality of human relations.
The claim that the more technologically advanced a society is, the more aware its members are of technology's drawbacks plays which one of the following roles in the sociologist's argument?
It is a conclusion supported
The claim is not a conclusion based on the claim that follows it, but rather works in parallel with the claim that follows it to support the argument’s conclusion.
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It is offered as an
Why this is right
This correctly identifies the role of the claim as a reason why the more technologically advanced a society is, the more marked its members’ resistance to technological innovations.
Skill tested: Role · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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It is a premise in
The claim that the quality of human relations in technologically advanced societies is extremely poor is not contained within the argument.
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It is a generalization based
The claim that the more people resist technological innovations, the more difficult it is for them to adjust to those innovations is not contained within the argument.
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It is an example presented
The claim that resistance to technological innovations deeply affects the quality of human relations is not contained within the argument.
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