Hi. I am new to the forum, can i possibly obtain the passage analysis/discussion that you guys posted/analyzed in other passages ? haha
This is a tough RC and I want to learn from an expert perspective.
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Re: Passage Discussion
PURPOSE: consider and evaluate several explanations for a phenomenon
TOPIC: how can we explain the momentous developments of the civil rights movement?
MAIN POINT: the three popular "classical" explanations from social psychology are unsatisfying explanations for the civil rights movement.
P1: Establishes the topic and introduces two points of view (social psychologists vs. political theorists), though we don't yet know what those POV's are or whether the author agrees with either.
P2: Names the 3 theories being used to explain the civil rights movement by the social psychologists: rising expectations, relative deprivation, and J-curve.
P3: Gives brief descriptions of those 3 theories.
P4: Gives us the political theorists' POV (they don't like any of the social psychologists' three theories)
P5: The author endorses the political theorists' POV.
(These "very legitimate" complains having been made ... "Problematically, there are stats to support any of the three theories" ... "Unsurprisingly, none of the theories correlate well with news report data")
On a first read, we don't NEED to be able to explain the 3 theories, but if we DID come away with that, all the better. We mostly needed to see the two POV's presented and see that the author sides with the second.
Social Psychologists (3 theories, which could help explain civil rights movement)
Political Scientists (those theories are lame / trivializing / have little predictive value)
Author (I agree with the political scientists)
Hope this helps.
TOPIC: how can we explain the momentous developments of the civil rights movement?
MAIN POINT: the three popular "classical" explanations from social psychology are unsatisfying explanations for the civil rights movement.
P1: Establishes the topic and introduces two points of view (social psychologists vs. political theorists), though we don't yet know what those POV's are or whether the author agrees with either.
P2: Names the 3 theories being used to explain the civil rights movement by the social psychologists: rising expectations, relative deprivation, and J-curve.
P3: Gives brief descriptions of those 3 theories.
P4: Gives us the political theorists' POV (they don't like any of the social psychologists' three theories)
P5: The author endorses the political theorists' POV.
(These "very legitimate" complains having been made ... "Problematically, there are stats to support any of the three theories" ... "Unsurprisingly, none of the theories correlate well with news report data")
On a first read, we don't NEED to be able to explain the 3 theories, but if we DID come away with that, all the better. We mostly needed to see the two POV's presented and see that the author sides with the second.
Social Psychologists (3 theories, which could help explain civil rights movement)
Political Scientists (those theories are lame / trivializing / have little predictive value)
Author (I agree with the political scientists)
Hope this helps.
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