Edexcel Government and Politics A2 2016 - Unit 3 and Unit 4

What the f*** did people write for 1A 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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MouseyBrown

Original post by kitttsy

Me and you both buddy - I also spoke about how people criticised it as centred on "middle class white women" 😂😩 yup I ****ed that whole exam big time

Yeah I mean that was weird. I just wasn't sure if they meant how have feminists criticized feminism, i.e. what are the argument within it. So just rumbled about that basically, and essentialism etc.

Hated it.

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Zilein

Original post by blackdiamond97

When I saw that feminism 45 marker I could have cried tears of joy. This exam was banging

True but I liked the nationalism more both were lovely 👌🍆

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SinsNotTragedies

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The feminism question was vaguely put - if your points are valid then it'll be fine guys. :h:

What did everyone write for the ecologism sustainability question? :holmes:

The nationalism 45 marker was a blessing. :awesome:

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I think that paper was not like any past papers before, they interpreted it so weirdly..

Feminism (15) - i wrote about criticisms within feminism, such as liberal reject the radical feminist views on men.. (because of their belief in androgyny and equal rights)
- post modernist criticised feminist as well, on their belief in sex and how it is not a clear cut biological distinction, questioning sex
- Islamic feminist reject feminist beliefs of patriarchy
- Marxist feminist reject patriarchy as well as their belief in communism

not sure if it was valid points ... regretting not put conservatives reject feminist :/

Nationalism (15) - racialism talked about (xenophobia, integral nationalism, primordial bonds, chauvinism, ethnic nationalism)
- patriotism talked about (inclusive concept, civic nationalism, cultural nationalism, celebrate past victories etc., Johan Herder)

this 15 marker once again... not sure if valid points, as so vague in my opinion

Multiculturalism (15) - talked about how liberal criticised it because of foundational beliefs (individualism vs. collectivism)
- Armatya Sen on 'solitaric' theory and 'ghettoization'
- Then, however liberals only criticised to a certain extent as there is liberal multiculturalism (then went on and on about what they both support using John rawls, J.S Mill, deep diversity, republican multiculturalism, their view together on tolerance as well as public and private divide)

what you guys think?! panicking about my points..

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Original post by SinsNotTragedies

The feminism question was vaguely put - if your points are valid then it'll be fine guys. :h:

What did everyone write for the ecologism sustainability question? :holmes:

The nationalism 45 marker was a blessing. :awesome:

how you answer the nationalism question?

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blackdiamond97

OP

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Original post by blank101

I did that too! I think quite a few people did so we should be okay?!

I did this as well lmfao

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dfradkin

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Whoever did the deep ecologist criticism of sustainability, what did you write?

I said: it is anthropocentric- implies sustainability is viewed as extending human concerns / fails to account for ecological morals - biocentric equality/ deep ecologists are sceptical of it as it may cause unpredictable harm due to holism

Is this any good??

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All I'm xn

The question about sustainability I talked about deep ecologism, all aspects such as
spaceship earth, gaia theory, aspects of back to nature etc..
Then critised it by explaining how views are unrealistic and so on
And also mentioned with shallow ecologism and thier viewpoints vs deep ecology

I dunno tho found that question quite confusing

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bsbnah

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Aside from the 45 marker on nationalism, that paper was one of the worst ive sat.. What were those 15 markers? The feminism and nationalism one just threw me off

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dfradkin

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Original post by All I'm xn

The question about sustainability I talked about deep ecologism, all aspects such as
spaceship earth, gaia theory, aspects of back to nature etc..
Then critised it by explaining how views are unrealistic and so on
And also mentioned with shallow ecologism and thier viewpoints vs deep ecology

I dunno tho found that question quite confusing

Wait I thought the question was: on what grounds have deep ecologists criticized sustainability?

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kitttsy

Original post by dfradkin

Whoever did the deep ecologist criticism of sustainability, what did you write?

I said: it is anthropocentric- implies sustainability is viewed as extending human concerns / fails to account for ecological morals - biocentric equality/ deep ecologists are sceptical of it as it may cause unpredictable harm due to holism

Is this any good??

I pretty much did the same as well as talking about the modernist ecologist ideas about sustainability and how capitalism would sustain environment problems by its self and how deep ecologists hate that idea and think it's a contradiction within itself as it's the problem not the solution.

Seems as though there hasn't been a question like it before - the 15 markers threw me off so bad I ended up rushing my 45 marker and I forgot to include so much 😩 I just waffled the whole exam

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username1447874

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Original post by dfradkin

Whoever did the deep ecologist criticism of sustainability, what did you write?

I said: it is anthropocentric- implies sustainability is viewed as extending human concerns / fails to account for ecological morals - biocentric equality/ deep ecologists are sceptical of it as it may cause unpredictable harm due to holism

Is this any good??

Said that it was anthropocentric too and then talked about Realos vs Fundis greens.
Talked about how deep greens want zero growth and criticise shallow greens who want sustainable growth, which I said was a thinly concealed form of anthropocentricism.
Talked about Boulding's spaceship earth. How we should treat resources as natural capital rather than income.
Talked about how zero growth would lead to post-materialism + self-actualisation + the environmental consciousness

(Lool my essay structure was way better than that btw^)

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Original post by bsbnah

Aside from the 45 marker on nationalism, that paper was one of the worst ive sat.. What were those 15 markers? The feminism and nationalism one just threw me off

i feel the same.. they were so different from past papers..
how did you go on to answer the liberal critiques on multiculturalism

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MouseyBrown

For all you wondering about the liberalism vs multiculturalism one, check out this mark scheme

http://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/A%20Level/Government%20and%20Politics/2013/Exam%20materials/6GP04_4B_rms_20120816.pdf

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needanewusername

How was the multiculturalism 45 mark question worded? Think it went okay, just need reassuring.

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