LSAT Question Explanation
PT 158, Section 2, Question 1
Main ConclusionArgument structure
Popular music has been used to promote religious and political messages.
Social movements adopt popular music to convert people into their movement and to raise morale and express the solidarity of people in the movement.
Answer choices
The stimulus never talks about the success of social movements or whether using popular music makes them successful.
The author doesn't say that people have overemphasized the entertainment value of popular music, just that popular music is also used for some other things besides entertainment. Music can have multiple uses and still have plenty of entertainment value.
The author never claims that popular music is the most effective way of converting people to social movements, just that it has the potential to convert people.
This is the main conclusion, just stated slightly more broadly. The author concluded that popular music is used by religious and political movements, which are purposes other than mere entertainment.
This is way outside the scope of the stimulus, the author never makes this claim.