Official June 2024 AQA A-level POLITICS 7152/3 Paper 3 Political ideas Merged Question Paper + Mark Scheme Ace your Mocks!!! IB/G/Jun24/G4003/E6 7152/3 Friday 14 June 2024 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours Materials For this paper you must have: • an AQA 12-page answer book. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7152/3. • Answer all questions from Section A and Section B. • Answer one question from Section C. • Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. • Do not tear out any part of the book. All work must be handed in. • If you use more than one book, check that you have written the information required on each book. Information • The marks for questions are shown in brackets. • The maximum mark for this paper is 77. A-level POLITICS Paper 3 Political ideas 2 IB/G/Jun24/7152/3 0 1 Socialism Explain and analyse three ways in which socialist thinkers view the free market. [9 marks] 0 2 Liberalism Explain and analyse three ways in which liberal thinkers view individual liberty. [9 marks] 0 3 Conservatism Explain and analyse three ways in which conservative thinkers view the role of the state. [9 marks] Section A – Core Ideologies Short Questions Answer questions 1, 2 and 3. 3 IB/G/Jun24/7152/3 Turn over ► Section B – Core Ideologies Extract Question Read the extracts below and answer question 4 that follows. Methods to achieve Socialism Extract 1 Reform or revolution? Legislative reform and revolution are different factors in the development of class society. They condition and complement each other, and are at the same time exclusive of each other, as are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution. In the history of classes, revolution is the act of political creation, while legislation is the political expression of the life of a society that has already come into being. The development of democracy brings some sort of “people’s state”. But this participation takes the form of bourgeois parliamentary democracy, where class conflicts and class domination are not done away with, but are, on the contrary, displayed in the open. Exactly for this reason must the proletariat seize political power and suppress completely the capitalist system. Extract adapted from Reform or Revolution, by Rosa Luxemburg, 1899. Extract 2 The dangers of revolution The United Kingdom and the USA should study the USSR to avoid its mistakes. Because of Great Britain’s unified and stabilised population and unwritten constitution, which permit every possible alteration, the establishment of a new social order need not involve violent upheaval against despotic and corrupt government as it did in Tsarist Russia. Thus, the British people will be able to avoid the crudities and cruelties inherent in sudden and violent revolution. On the other hand, to carry out social reconstruction it will be desirable to study the bolder experiments in the USSR owing to the fact the government swept away the remnants of the old social order. Extract adapted from The Truth about Soviet Russia, co-authored by Beatrice Webb, 1942. 0 4 Analyse, evaluate and compare the arguments presented in the extracts with regard to the role of revolution in socialism. In your answer you should refer to the thinkers that you have studied. [25 marks] Turn over for Section C 4 IB/G/Jun24/7152/3 Either 0 5 Nationalism ‘Nationalism values the identity of a people over their rights.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement with reference to the nationalist thinkers that you have studied. [25 marks] or 0 6 Feminism ‘Feminism must focus on economic and social equality rather than legal equality.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement with reference to the feminist thinkers that you have studied. [25 marks] or 0 7 Multiculturalism ‘Tolerance is the only meaningful principle of multiculturalism.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement with reference to the multiculturalist thinkers that you have studied. [25 marks] or 0 8 Anarchism ‘Collective cooperation, not individual liberty, is the main aim of anarchism.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement with reference to the anarchist thinkers that you have studied. [25 marks] or 0 9 Ecologism ‘Only light green ecologists argue for effective solutions to the environmental problems caused by humans.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement with reference to the ecologist thinkers that you have studied. [25 marks] END OF QUESTIONS Section C – Other Ideologies Essay Question Answer the question set on one of the following ideologies. In your answer you should draw on material from across the whole range of your course of study in Politics. Copyright information For confidentiality purposes, all acknowledgements of third-party copyright material are published in a separate booklet. This booklet is published after each live examination series and is available for free download from www.aqa.org.uk Permission to reproduce all copyright material has been applied for. In some cases, efforts to contact copyright-holders may have been unsuccessful and AQA will be happy to rectify any omissions of acknowledgements. If you have any queries please contact the Copyright Team. Copyright © 2024 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved *246a7152/3* A-level Politics 7152/3 Political ideas Report on the Examination 7152 June 2024 Version: 1.0 © 2024 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. 2 of 6 Further copies of this Report are available from aqa.org.uk AQA retains the copyright on all its publications. However, registered schools/colleges for AQA are permitted to copy material from this booklet for their own internal use, with the following important exception: AQA cannot give permission to schools/colleges to photocopy any material that is acknowledged to a third party even for internal use within the centre. REPORT ON THE EXAMINATION – A-LEVEL POLITICS – 7152/3 – JUNE 2024 © 2024 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. 3 of 6 General Almost all students managed to complete all sections of the paper within the time allowed. As in previous years there was an imbalance in the optional ideologies answered by students, with Nationalism, Feminism and Anarchism accounting for almost all entries. Section A answers were generally wellstructured, with 3 clear points. In both section B and section C, stronger responses focused on the question set rather giving a general account of the key thinkers on the specification. Section A Question 1 Almost all students correctly suggested that socialists have a negative view of the free market and generally started their answers with Marxist theory. Those students that gave three different perspectives; were able to score well. Students were in most cases were able to accurately cite a key thinker in relation to a perspective. Weaker answers tended to either repetitively explain points that they had made (for example suggesting that Marx, Luxemburg and Webb all viewed the free market as harmful and unstable), there was also a tendency in many mid-level responses to explain socialist theory at length without focusing on the free market. There was also unclear expression of the views of Giddens, suggesting that he was an unabashed advocate of the free market. Answers that explained and analysed his more nuanced views tended to score better. Question 2 Students were typically able to refer to a range of thinkers and state their key ideas; Locke’s concepts of natural rights, Mill’s Harm principle, more modern conceptions positive freedom advocated by Green, Rawls and Frieden and the importance of individual freedom being equally available to all (often citing Wollstonecraft’s argument for female emancipation and equality). Responses that obtained higher marks avoided repetition and were able to give a more analytical explanation of why thinkers held a perspective, for example being able to accurately explain why individuals would rationally seek to be free in the original position or in Locke’s state of nature. Responses at middle and lower levels tended to make assertions about the ideas of key thinkers without using examples or analysis of key ideas to develop them further. Question 3 A range of points were commonly raised; Hobbes’s justification for a Leviathan, Rand and Nozick’s minarchist view of the state, the importance of pragmatism, and Burke’s advocacy for the preservation of established institutions. Answers that scored highly were able to effectively focus on the question set, explaining why the state should take the form it should, for example explaining the new right belief of protecting a right to private property. Weaker answers either tended to repetitively state that conservatives emphasised the importance of creating and maintaining order, or gave a general, and therefore less focused, account of key thinker’s ideas.