@ws1022 do you have the KA video handy that this derives from? I glanced quickly at ‘microsociology’ and ‘symbolic interactionism’ videos and didn’t see it (though I admit I didn’t look exhaustively).
The card is also tagged by Kaplan, which does touch on the subject, but doesn’t specifically delve into the relationship to cities or urban areas.
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/society-and-culture/demographics/v/urbanization
1:42If you look from a symbolic [interaction] in view point,
1:45you can see the positive side of cities
1:47rather than a chaotic place.
1:49Cities are places where people have a
1:51different way of looking at life.
1:52They are strong cultural values,
1:54and the people of different interactions
1:56and perspectives of urban life.
@pkaps01, lol Khan kills me with this. My initial reaction is that the suggestion goes from about 10 words to 40, quadrupling the length of the initial card (which, to be fair, was about as bare-bones as it could possibly be).
That being said, it’s not a terrible sentence structure (if a touch long) and it is verbatim. What are your thoughts?
For sure I think ‘symbolic interactions’ need to be adjusted to the more appropriate ‘symbolic interactionism’. I wonder if we couldn’t trim the word count a bit, but I also think I’m not going to entirely lose sleep over it one way or the other.
It’s long but it’s definitely an improvement on the previous card. I think it’s a lot more clear and the cloze structure within a sentence is more in line with the rest of the deck.
Yeah its definitely longer than before but honestly the before wasn’t great and at least now its coherent and if anyone in the future comes up with a better way to shorten it at least the card structure is fixed.
Yeah, I agree. Worst-case scenario it’s still an upgrade from the inexplicable original phrasing. I’ll let everyone take a look and see if anyone has any bright ideas about being able to tighten it up but even if not I think it’s demonstrably a sufficient improvement that even without any tailoring it’s worth pushing. 