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I found this problem confusing. Please advise.


Max Weber claimed that the traditions that theodicean societies, civilizations in which people feel a need to reconcile the imperfections of the world with a "perfect" divinity, develop are more likely to result in religious adherence than are those that non-theodicean societies develop.


(A) are those that non-theodicean societies develop

(B) what non-theodicean societies develop

(C) non-theodicean societies' development would

(D) non-theodicean societies' traditions do

(E) traditions of non-theodicean societies

OA: [spoiler]A[/spoiler]



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it should be between A and E. In the last two words is confusing, 'Your answer"
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I found this problem confusing. Please advise.


Max Weber claimed that the traditions that theodicean societies, civilizations in which people feel a need to reconcile the imperfections of the world with a "perfect" divinity, develop are more likely to result in religious adherence than are those that non-theodicean societies develop.
Simplified:
Max Weber claimed that the traditions that theodicean societies develop are more likely to result in religious adherence than are those that non-theodicean societies develop.


(A) are those that non-theodicean societies develop

(B) what non-theodicean societies develop
By using 'what' here, the sentence is now comparing un-like things. IE traditions theodicean societies develop VS anything that non-theo societies develop

(C) non-theodicean societies' development would
This is changing the meaning of the sentence. Instead of talking about the traditions being developed, it now seems to be talking about the societies being developed

(D) non-theodicean societies' traditions do
without the "do" at the end, this might be a legitimate answer.

(E) traditions of non-theodicean societies
For the meaning to be clear, there has to be indication that 'traditions of non-theodicean societies' is parallel with 'traditions that theodicean societies develop' and not easily confused as being parallel to 'religious adherence'

OA: [spoiler]A[/spoiler]
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That's my take on the problem, if anyone disagrees with any of my comments, please let me know (I'd rather be corrected than continue being wrong)
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I found this problem confusing. Please advise.


Max Weber claimed that the traditions that theodicean societies, civilizations in which people feel a need to reconcile the imperfections of the world with a "perfect" divinity, develop are more likely to result in religious adherence than are those that non-theodicean societies develop.


(A) are those that non-theodicean societies develop

(B) what non-theodicean societies develop

(C) non-theodicean societies' development would

(D) non-theodicean societies' traditions do

(E) traditions of non-theodicean societies

OA: [spoiler]A[/spoiler]
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If you look at the problem this way, then you will find it less confusing.

Max Weber claimed that the traditions that theodicean societies [appositive] develop are more likely to result in religious adherence than are those that non-theodicean societies develop.

The appositive civilizations in which people feel a need to reconcile the imperfections of the world with a "perfect" divinity modifies the noun theodicean societies. The test writer tries to trick us by throwing a long and wordy phrase, so we don't need to focus at it.

Besides, you can spot the comparison between:
the traditions that theodicean societies develop
and
those [the traditions] that non-theodicean societies develop

Hope this helps.
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the question is trying to confuse us by adding words between "more than". I found it helpful to move these words either before or after. For example, I would rephrase the sentence as:
...the traditions that X develops are likely to....more than those that Y develop are (likely to)

From here, I can see that I do need to have "are" in my answer.
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usage of are makes it parallel and idiomatic.
the traditions that theodicean societies develop are x than are those that y.



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