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Passage Map:
p1: to discuss similiarities and difference between new and old school political history, and their shortcoming - lack of info on women
p2: To intro a more recent historian's work that accounts for some shortcomings of the former historians
Question 1
A is incorrect because the passage doesn't focus on the reasons why the scholarly methods are incorrect, it merely states the shortcoming then provides the work of Baker, an alternate that accounts for the shortcoming
B accounts captures what I mentioned above -thus is correct
C No. Cannot be supported
D No, author's backgrounds are never compared
E The issue is no where defined as long-standing, and it would be hard to argue that baker's approach is 'partial'
Question 2
A is incorrect because no where is biographies mentioned
B We can't determine if the historians were reacting to political historians
C There's no reference to the 19th Century anywhere....19xx = 20th century
D Yes. We can infer this since we are told the techniques are "useless in analyzing the political activities of women" who couldn't vote
E no. No where are we told of the intention of why they were devised.
Question 3
The author states that Baker redefines "political activity" in the first sentence of the second paragraph. The author then states "Defining "politics" as "BAKERS DEFINITION", Baker concludes that..."
So we can ultimately see that Baker's definition is quoted to redefine an older term - "political history"
A is incorrect because no alternate is provided
B . I got this incorrect. But I see that if I had interpreted the first few sentences of the second paragraph more carefully and slowly I would have transpired my interpretation denoted above to selecting this.
C - if a new definition is provided then Baker must not have agreed with the older definition.
D - No. Style? What?
E - I thought this was the answer as it wasn't apparently clear to me that Baker's definition was 'Redefining" as quoted by the author - missed this completely- obviously if Baker is redefining then she can't be amplifying an existing definition
Question 4
E is quite apparently common. The other answers can be eliminated fairly easily. E is clear as we are told that "new school"..historians focus on "practices of ordinary citizens" and we are also told that Baker "concludes that among ordinary citizens" leading us to interpret that Baker focused on ordinary citizens as well.
Question 5
A is correct as scholarly approaches are in fact compared - New and Old - and the shortcoming -failure to include women - is identified and common to both
B - is incorrect as these thoughts aren't rival. A third is stated, not alluded to.
C is incorrect because no corrective approach is called for
D is incorrect because no counter arguments are given
E is incorrect because no political trends vis-à-vis historical era are described
Question 6
We get our information to solve this question in the first sentence: "The new school of political history that emerged.. sought to GO BEYOND the traditional focus of political historians on leaders and government institutions".
Thus pre-1960s political historians focused on Leaders and Government institutions
A is incorrect because women weren't even able to vote
B although I selected this answer I see that it's incorrect as we cannot infer the historians' focus outside of what we are told - which is that they focused on leaders and institutions
C is correct as it provides an example of a focus on a leader - "minister of foreign affairs"
D is incorrect because women weren't even in the scene
E is incorrect because it cannot be supported from what information we have.
p1: to discuss similiarities and difference between new and old school political history, and their shortcoming - lack of info on women
p2: To intro a more recent historian's work that accounts for some shortcomings of the former historians
Question 1
A is incorrect because the passage doesn't focus on the reasons why the scholarly methods are incorrect, it merely states the shortcoming then provides the work of Baker, an alternate that accounts for the shortcoming
B accounts captures what I mentioned above -thus is correct
C No. Cannot be supported
D No, author's backgrounds are never compared
E The issue is no where defined as long-standing, and it would be hard to argue that baker's approach is 'partial'
Question 2
A is incorrect because no where is biographies mentioned
B We can't determine if the historians were reacting to political historians
C There's no reference to the 19th Century anywhere....19xx = 20th century
D Yes. We can infer this since we are told the techniques are "useless in analyzing the political activities of women" who couldn't vote
E no. No where are we told of the intention of why they were devised.
Question 3
The author states that Baker redefines "political activity" in the first sentence of the second paragraph. The author then states "Defining "politics" as "BAKERS DEFINITION", Baker concludes that..."
So we can ultimately see that Baker's definition is quoted to redefine an older term - "political history"
A is incorrect because no alternate is provided
B . I got this incorrect. But I see that if I had interpreted the first few sentences of the second paragraph more carefully and slowly I would have transpired my interpretation denoted above to selecting this.
C - if a new definition is provided then Baker must not have agreed with the older definition.
D - No. Style? What?
E - I thought this was the answer as it wasn't apparently clear to me that Baker's definition was 'Redefining" as quoted by the author - missed this completely- obviously if Baker is redefining then she can't be amplifying an existing definition
Question 4
E is quite apparently common. The other answers can be eliminated fairly easily. E is clear as we are told that "new school"..historians focus on "practices of ordinary citizens" and we are also told that Baker "concludes that among ordinary citizens" leading us to interpret that Baker focused on ordinary citizens as well.
Question 5
A is correct as scholarly approaches are in fact compared - New and Old - and the shortcoming -failure to include women - is identified and common to both
B - is incorrect as these thoughts aren't rival. A third is stated, not alluded to.
C is incorrect because no corrective approach is called for
D is incorrect because no counter arguments are given
E is incorrect because no political trends vis-à-vis historical era are described
Question 6
We get our information to solve this question in the first sentence: "The new school of political history that emerged.. sought to GO BEYOND the traditional focus of political historians on leaders and government institutions".
Thus pre-1960s political historians focused on Leaders and Government institutions
A is incorrect because women weren't even able to vote
B although I selected this answer I see that it's incorrect as we cannot infer the historians' focus outside of what we are told - which is that they focused on leaders and institutions
C is correct as it provides an example of a focus on a leader - "minister of foreign affairs"
D is incorrect because women weren't even in the scene
E is incorrect because it cannot be supported from what information we have.
20 Jun 2020, 13:52
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Paula Baker's definition of politics included “any action taken to affect the course of behavior of government or of the community." This broader definition captured political activity performed by women, whose contributions were excluded by historians following an older definition of politics.
By contrast, these previous historians used techniques that were NOT able to capture the contributions of women. For instance, they relied on election returns to give them insight about political activity. These voting records would definitely exclude the impact of women, who did not have the right to vote.
So, while it's not stated explicitly in the passage that the previously accepted definition of political activity was voting and holding office, the contrast set up by the author allows us to infer that Baker introduced a broader, more inclusive definition, which differed from the previous, narrower definition that excluded women.
Overall, it is clear that Baker is not "amplifying" the older definition, but is instead is changing it to be more inclusive.
I hope that helps!
