48. Which of the following best captures the rhetorical strategy used by the author throughout the passage? (A) Establishing a widely accepted belief and progressively undermining it through psychological and philosophical counterarguments (B) Narrating a historical shift in cultural values through personal anecdote and empirical data (C) Contrasting Western and non-Western attitudes toward autonomy in order to critique globalization (D) Advocating for political reform by highlighting social inequality in access to decision-making