21. The author s attitude toward the various kinds of compulsion employed by social institutions is best described as
concerned and sympathetic
scientific and detached
suspicious and cautious
reproachful and disturbed
meditative and wistful
22. According to the passage, states of power are transient because of the
differing natures and directions of the forces that create them
rigid structural framework in which they operate
unique source from which they emanate
pervasive nature and complexity of the mechanisms by which they operate
concatenation that seeks to arrest their movement
23. It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes the conflict among social forces to be
essentially the same from one society to another even though its outward manifestation may seem different
usually the result of misunderstandings that impede social progress
an inevitable feature of the social order of any state
wrongly blamed for disrupting the stability of society
best moderated in states that possess a strong central government
The hypothesis of an expanding Earth has never attracted notable support, and if it were not for the historical example of continental drift, such indifference might be a legitimate response to an apparently improbable concept. It should be remembered, however, that drift too was once regarded as illusory, but the idea was kept alive until evidence from physicists compelled geologists to reinterpret their data.
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