PrepTest 116, Section 4, Question 12
Many educators in Canada and the United States(454 more words not shown)
Given the information in the(25 more words not shown)
- Aa study of(12 more words not shown)
- Ba study of(14 more words not shown)
- Ca study that(11 more words not shown)
- Da study that(18 more words not shown)
- Ea study that(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
These are the second proposal's supporters, not its critics. They want each culture taken on its own terms, without using one culture's values to judge another. I'd expect them to object to that sort of imposed judgment.
What we’re looking for
They still use Western scientific methods. Remembering that will keep us from accidentally answering for the critics in the next paragraph.
Working the answers
- A
Comparing moral codes initially looks worth checking, but finding differences isn't the same as judging one code by another. A study could describe both without declaring either inferior.
- B
Looking at literature to identify the traits a culture admires helps us understand its own values. No outside standard is imposed here.
- C
This is permitted by the proposal. Its critics object to Western scientific methods, but its proponents continue using them.
- DCorrect
One society's literary theories become the standards for criticizing another society's literature, despite their different values. That conflicts with the proponents' rule: judgments about a culture should not be based on another culture’s values (paragraph 3).
- E
Anthropology and sociology are methods these proponents accept. And the study criticizes Western values; it doesn't specify judging a different culture by an imported set of values. Criticism alone isn't the prohibited act. We need the cross-cultural judgment described in D.
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