Gov & Pol A2 - Political Ideologies - 11th June 2012

Reply 20

IngensPolyspaston

Original post by exe

Cognitive bias in action

Call it what you want, of course I'm going to try and justify this course of action - but the argument is logical.

Reply 21

exe

Original post by IngensPolyspaston

Call it what you want, of course I'm going to try and justify this course of action - but the argument is logical.

Fair enough
Good luck, at any rate. It'd probably be successufl on the fact that the ground boundaries are so low

Reply 22

peachesandcream77

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That's what i'm doing.. I don't really see the problem or the large risk involved.
For 45 mark, I will always get a choice of at least 2 questions and for the 15 mark, I will always get a choice of at least 3 out of 5. Im really just so lazy that i probably wouldnt do it any other way.. !

Reply 23

IngensPolyspaston

Original post by peachesandcream77

That's what i'm doing.. I don't really see the problem or the large risk involved.
For 45 mark, I will always get a choice of at least 2 questions and for the 15 mark, I will always get a choice of at least 3 out of 5. Im really just so lazy that i probably wouldnt do it any other way.. !

This is exactly my point - as long as you know all 3 well enough, the risk is minimal if at all there.

Reply 24

JEFFERSON

OP

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Any potential questions you think will come up? I'm thinking maybe 'at the heart of liberalism lies a fear of unchecked power' one and 'conservatism is merely a ruling-class ideology'. Chip in with 15 and 45 markers...

Reply 25

peachesandcream77

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Original post by JEFFERSON

Any potential questions you think will come up? I'm thinking maybe 'at the heart of liberalism lies a fear of unchecked power' one and 'conservatism is merely a ruling-class ideology'. Chip in with 15 and 45 markers...

Whaaatt, what would you write for the conservatism ruling class ideology Q? ..

Reply 26

exe

Original post by peachesandcream77

Whaaatt, what would you write for the conservatism ruling class ideology Q? ..

i'd probably talk about organic society, how and why conservatives value hierachy, and how newer forms of conservatism have moved away from that for a more liberal-meritocratic-technocratic societal structure

Reply 27

blob290

Original post by JEFFERSON

Any potential questions you think will come up? I'm thinking maybe 'at the heart of liberalism lies a fear of unchecked power' one and 'conservatism is merely a ruling-class ideology'. Chip in with 15 and 45 markers...

what would you write for the liberalism one? :eek:

Reply 28

Tsunami2011

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Original post by blob290

what would you write for the liberalism one? :eek:

Talk about Lord Acton's 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'

Refer to the notion of liberal democracy.
Internal checks and balances
internal fragmentations
safeguarded civil liberties,etc

Talk about the negative aspects of democracy for liberals.

All show why liberals fear power.

Reply 29

Fofo

How would you break down this question? :s-smilie:

To what extent is there tension in parliamentary socialism between an acceptance of capitalism and support for equality and social justice?

Reply 30

JEFFERSON

OP

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Original post by Fofo

How would you break down this question? :s-smilie:

To what extent is there tension in parliamentary socialism between an acceptance of capitalism and support for equality and social justice?

Hmmm... that is really hard? Where did you find that question?

Reply 31

exe

Yeah, usually the questions aren't that specific

Reply 32

ILM16

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Original post by IngensPolyspaston

How does that work? You're asked to do 3 questions, if you have revised 3 ideologies (liberalism/conservatism/anarchism) then surely you would just do those 3 questions?

Ahh i see what you mean now.. the anarchism and marxism question - thats fair enough, but if you do anarchism in the text book, it explains the links and differences of the two regarding the state..

Oh yeah, but you'd have to remember enough about the Marxism bit and understand what's going on.

Original post by peachesandcream77

That's what i'm doing.. I don't really see the problem or the large risk involved.
For 45 mark, I will always get a choice of at least 2 questions and for the 15 mark, I will always get a choice of at least 3 out of 5. Im really just so lazy that i probably wouldnt do it any other way.. !

Not necessarily, as explained earlier, in January 2012 if you had totally passed on socialism, you only had 2 questions from the 15 markers which related solely to the other ideologies.

Plus there is no guarantee that a 45 marker won't be repeated, as in 2 questions from the same ideology. I very much doubt they'd do that, but it's possible and the last question could be a nightmare! :biggrin:

Reply 33

ILM16

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Original post by Fofo

How would you break down this question? :s-smilie:

To what extent is there tension in parliamentary socialism between an acceptance of capitalism and support for equality and social justice?

You could speak about capitalism's tendencies for great inequality and hence the critique of capitalism. Socialism is defined by full equality and so parliamentary socialism would find it difficult to accept capitalism and at the same time provide the equality prescribed by Marx et al.

On the other side you could say that parliamentary socialists have argued that capitalism is the only means tested way of providing actual prosperity and it can be harnessed (Keynesian), therefore wealth can be redistributed and thus support equality and social justice.

Reply 34

peachesandcream77

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Original post by IngensPolyspaston

This is exactly my point - as long as you know all 3 well enough, the risk is minimal if at all there.

Which 3 have you decided to do?

Reply 35

peachesandcream77

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Original post by ILM16

Oh yeah, but you'd have to remember enough about the Marxism bit and understand what's going on.

Not necessarily, as explained earlier, in January 2012 if you had totally passed on socialism, you only had 2 questions from the 15 markers which related solely to the other ideologies.

Plus there is no guarantee that a 45 marker won't be repeated, as in 2 questions from the same ideology. I very much doubt they'd do that, but it's possible and the last question could be a nightmare! :biggrin:

hmm what were the jan 2012 15 mark questions?
i highly doubt that there would be 2 ideology the same questions for 45 marks.. either way i dont have time to cover a whole new ideology now!