There is a key difference between the everyday actor and the social analyst in their interactions with the social world that can be summed up as a. the actor possesses knowledge that the analyst will never be able to understand, but the analyst can understand things that are not part of the actor's world. b. the actor understands well what has happened in the past, but the analyst is able to assess what is happening in the present. c. the actor takes for granted what the analyst can grasp deeply, and the analyst must struggle to understand what the actor implicitly understands. d. there is no difference between how the actor and the analyst can understand the real social world.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.