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ACT Reading 2.3 Social Science Passage. In what context would you expect to see this passage?
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- 00:03
Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the social history of nineteenth-century
- 00:07
Europe. And... other great topics for first dates.
- 00:23
In what context would you expect to see this passage?
- 00:31
This question is... pretty deep.
- 00:33
Not only do we need know the main point of the passage, we also have to infer the larger
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- 00:37
context in which it might appear.
- 00:39
We'll nix the easiest one first.
- 00:41
The passage never mentions anything about capitol punishment, so it would be a pretty
- 00:45
bad addition to a chapter focusing on the subject.
- 00:49
Choice (D) is out of the running.
- 00:50
This passage is zeroed in on criminal sociology, making it an unlikely candidate for a book
- 00:56
on a topic as broad as the social history of nineteenth-century Europe.
- 01:04
Yeah, Ok. We'll just go ahead and cross out choice (C).
- 01:06
Ferri spends a lot of time introducing concepts, but not a lot of time summing up the points
- 01:11
that he's already made.
- 01:12
Therefore we're more likely to find this passage in an introduction than a conclusion.
- 01:17
This eliminates (B) and makes (A) the right answer.
- 01:20
Hm. We take back what we said about this question being deep.
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