This answer is anti-supported. The stimulus directly states some benefits of a theoretical framework: it facilitates conceptual organization and fruitful expansions of research.

This answer is unsupported. We don’t know anything about other disciplines from the stimulus to make this comparison with history.

This answer is strongly supported. If history is too complex for all of the main trends to be captured within a theoretical framework, then even the best analysis within a framework will still fail to capture all of history’s main trends.

This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus whether historians have emphasized the value of extending research in particular, just that it's one reason why historians find theoretical frameworks useful.

This answer is anti-supported. The stimulus directly indicates several advantages of using a theoretical framework, which lets us infer there's at least some difference.