Sociologist: The more technologically advanced a society is, the more marked its members' resistance to technological innovations. This is not surprising, because the more technologically advanced a society is, the more aware its members are of technology' s drawbacks. Specifically, people realize that sophisticated technologies deeply affect the quality of human relations. The claim that the more technologically advanced a society is, the more aware its members are of technology's drawbacks plays which one of the following roles in the sociologist's argument? ["It is offered as an explanation of why people's resistance to technological innovations is more marked the more technologically advanced the society in which they live is.", 'It is a conclusion supported by the claim that people realize that sophisticated technologies deeply affect the quality of human relations.', 'It is a generalization based on the claim that the more people resist technological innovations, the more difficult it is for them to adjust to those innovations.', 'It is an example presented to illustrate the claim that resistance to technological innovations deeply affects the quality of human relations.']