Q24

[vincent.m]

I went with D originally, but is D incorrect because of the use of the word goals, i.e. we don't know what the goals of the narrator are?

Thank you!

[maryadkins]

So in line 30 we're being told about a story that reflects "day-to-day responsibilities" of Mesquakie women, but it's a typical "life passage" in that it doesn't get into the central character's psychological motivation. In other words, like other life passage studies, it's less about the "individual" (lines 15-17) than life-histories.

(A) is too extreme, there's no dismissal of the personal perspective as "irrelevant."

(B) is correct; "psychological motivation" is missing in this life passage, just like it's missing in life-passage studies, generally.

(C) is unsupported because this portion of the passage isn't about the narrator's subjective choice in choosing this approach.

(D) is unsupported for a similar reason"”we're not discussing goals of the narrator here, or how those do or don't conflict with other goals.

(E) is too extreme and is unsupported; the author isn't asserting an opinion here, nor would it be the opinion that an understanding of psychological motivation would "usually" undermine objective ethnography