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Re: Jon Clarks study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex [#permalink] Jon Clark’s study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex   22 Aug 2022, 14:12
Hello Experts,
Found this passage really dense and very difficult to comprehend.
Got 3/8.. Can you all please give some tips on how to tackle with such long and "difficult to understand" passages?
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Jon Clarks study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex [#permalink] Jon Clark’s study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex   25 Aug 2022, 19:54
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P2 : Clark believes ... has been obscured by ... [the idea] exemplified by Braverman’s analysis. ...
This position represents ... social constructivism.
—> So Clark is OPPOSED to "social constructivism"



Hi RonTargetTestPrep - From Para 2 - I dont understand how you believe "Clark is OPPOSED to "social constructivism"

Could you assist?

All I understood form para 2 is :
(a) There is a new kind of "social constructivism"
(b) We dont know as of para 2 if John Clark is in favor of this new "social constructivism"

RonTargetTestPrep wrote:
P3: The constructivists gain acceptance by misrepresenting technological determinism...
—> "Social constructivism" is basically lies, then

I dont see how one can say the "New Social constructivism" is basically lies

P3, all i can gather is
(a) "New Social constructivism" lies about Technological determinism
(b) Rest of the para is about how "Social constructivism" lies about Technological determinism
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Re: Jon Clarks study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex [#permalink] Jon Clark’s study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex   25 Aug 2022, 21:36
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Hi RonTargetTestPrep - From Para 2 - I dont understand how you believe "Clark is OPPOSED to "social constructivism"

Could you assist?


Sure.

Express summary of the first three sentences of ¶2:
• Clark makes a point. (So this is definitely something that Clark believes/accepts.)
• Here's a stronger statement of the same point.
• But there's a new, 'fashionable' idea—stated by Braverman—that's currently OBSCURING that point.

At this point we know that, according to Clark, a newfangled 'fashion' of an idea (this is not a compliment! Calling an academic idea a 'fashion' pretty clearly implies that it's an unserious idea that'll fade away soon enough....) is distracting attention away from HIS point ("obscuring" his point).

It's quite clear that Clark does not hold a favorable opinion of the idea propounded by Braverman.


(Even if you didn't pick up this negative judgment here, you'll definitely get it once you reach ¶4, in which it's explicitly stated that Clark REFUTES the idea put forward by constructivists (Braverman's crowd).



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P3: The constructivists gain acceptance by misrepresenting technological determinism...
—> "Social constructivism" is basically lies, then

I dont see how one can say the "New Social constructivism" is basically lies

P3, all i can gather is
(a) "New Social constructivism" lies about Technological determinism
(b) Rest of the para is about how "Social constructivism" lies about Technological determinism


From the red stuff, it looks as though you've figured out that the presentation here is "social constructivism = lies"... that's literally the content of both of those statements!
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Jon Clarks study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex [#permalink] Jon Clark’s study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex   26 Aug 2022, 07:23
Thx so much RonTargetTestPrep -

I tried this technique but i noticed, detail questions become a BIG problem because you have to rely to "word match" or 'phrase match'

Because we have skimmed the passage, one has to rely on word mapping (map the words from the question stem to where you think you saw that word in the passage)

For example - Question 2 - The question stem has the word "modernization of the telephone exchange"

On my first read, given i am skimming through so much - i didnt really pay much attention to the phrase "modernization of the telephone exchange"

So i tried finding the phrase 'modernization of the telephone exchange"

I see the phrase "modernization of the telephone exchange" in para 1 but i dont think para 1 gives you the answer to Question 2

I believe the answer for Q2 are the details in the LAST paragraph
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Re: Jon Clarks study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex [#permalink] Jon Clark’s study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex   15 Sep 2022, 05:08
Hi, could an expert please point me to a material, an app or a website where I can get comfortable with this sort of language? This passage pretty much blew me away and I had to spend a lot of time (not looking at the timer) just to understand what the author meant. I appreciate that I need to work on my weakness but I normally don't find this sort of condensed language and information in normal newspapers and articles I read on Economist etc. I would really appreciate a pointer to the material to read this sort of language and get comfortable. Thanks.
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Jon Clarks study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex [#permalink] Jon Clark’s study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex   16 Apr 2023, 05:46
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RC00013-04. The information in the passage suggests that which of the following statements from hypothetical sociological studies of change in industry most clearly exemplifies the social constructivists??? version of technological determinism?

(A) It is the available technology that determines workers??? skills, rather than workers??? skills influencing the application of technology.
(B) All progress in industrial technology grows out of a continuing negotiation between technological possibility and human need.
(C) Some organizational change is caused by people; some is caused by computer chips.
(D) Most major technological advances in industry have been generated through research and development.
(E) Some industrial technology eliminates jobs, but educated workers can create whole new skills areas by the adaptation of the technology.


dear avigutman, AndrewN,MartyTargetTestPrep , RonTargetTestPrep
I crossed off A because I think A is the point of Clark, from the sentence:
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Clark makes the point that the characteristics of a technology have a decisive influence on job skills and work organization. Put more strongly, technology can be a primary determinant of social and managerial organization.


so only B left.
but I have no idea why A is OA, which refers to the social constructivists??? version of technological determinism ?

honestly speaking, I have the same troblem
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Thx so much RonTargetTestPrep -

I tried this technique but i noticed, detail questions become a BIG problem because you have to rely to "word match" or 'phrase match'

Because we have skimmed the passage, one has to rely on word mapping (map the words from the question stem to where you think you saw that word in the passage)

For example - Question 2 - The question stem has the word "modernization of the telephone exchange"

On my first read, given i am skimming through so much - i didnt really pay much attention to the phrase "modernization of the telephone exchange"

So i tried finding the phrase 'modernization of the telephone exchange"

I see the phrase "modernization of the telephone exchange" in para 1 but i dont think para 1 gives you the answer to Question 2


please elaborate
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Re: Jon Clarks study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex [#permalink] Jon Clark’s study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex   09 May 2024, 15:44
Can anyone explain the word "subordinate to" please? I look up on the dictionary and it means that: to put someone or something into a less important position. But in some explanation they said that it means depend on.
And I can not understand what does that sentence mean :((
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