Specialists in international communications almost unanimously assert that the broadcasting in developing nations of television programs produced by industrialized countries amounts to cultural imperialism: the phenomenon of one culture's productions overwhelming another's, to the detriment of the flourishing of the latter. ███
Other perspective ·Showing TV programs from industrialized countries to developing nations is cultural imperialism
Second question to examine ·How do individual viewers behave?
Need to take into account diversity of responses and experiences.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Problem-analysis
14.
The primary purpose of the ███████ ██ ██
Question Type
Implied
Purpose of passage
The purpose of this Problem-Analysis passage is to describe a problem (comms specialists fail to properly understand the impact that imported media have on people) and propose a solution (comms specialists should adopt an empirical approach similar to what anthropologists use).
a
determine which of ███ ██████████ ██████████ ██ █ ███████ ██████████ ██ ███████
The only two disciplines discussed in the passage are comms specialists and anthropologists, but the author doesn’t suggest that either one of those disciplines has two hypotheses. Rather, the author critiques one hypothesis of comms specialists, and she doesn’t present any hypotheses of anthropologists.
The author doesn’t discredit any evidence offered by the comms specialists. Rather, she points out that they have little to no evidence to begin with. (B) also ignores a key part of the author’s purpose: to propose recommendations, which are the focus of P3 and P4.
c
argue that a ███████ ██████████ ██████ █████ █ ██████████ ███████████
The purpose of the passage is to argue that comms specialists should adopt a similar methodology to what anthropologists use, in order to solve the problem of how to properly understand the impact that imported media have on people.
d
examine similar methodological ██████████ ██ ███ █████████ ███████████
The author presents weaknesses in only the comms specialists’ methodology. She then presents the strengths of an anthropology-like methodology.
e
compare the views ██ ███ █████████ ███████████ ██ ██ █████
The only two disciplines discussed in the passage are comms specialists and anthropologists. But the author never presents the overall views of anthropologists as a discipline on any issue. She just references a single anthropological study. (B) also ignores a key part of the author’s purpose: to propose recommendations, which are the focus of P3 and P4.
Difficulty
62% of people who answer get this correct
This is a difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%147
159
75%171
Analysis
Implied
Purpose of passage
Critique or debate
Humanities
Problem-analysis
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
158
b
31%
162
c
62%
167
d
2%
154
e
5%
157
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