- There are two different types of state apparatuses, being Repressive State Apparatuses and Ideological State Apparatuses. First of all, Repressive State apparatuses consist mostly of justice academies and federal administrations, such as the FDA, DEA, IRS, and more. Repressive State Apparatuses don’t necessarily force ideologies onto society, nevertheless they do enforce rules and regulations in hopes for the world to function in harmony to their satisfaction.
- On the other hand, Ideological State Apparatuses do explain and force ideologies onto you in many different forms. These forms include, but are not limited to: multiple forms of social media, such as Instagram, and regular media, such as radio shows or even forms of news broadcasting such as CNN.
- When understanding the two State Apparatuses, it is absolutely vital to know the difference between the two State Apparatuses, being that Repressive enforces rules and regulations while Ideological enforces various forms of Ideologies.
- There are many different Ideologies out there in the world that shape society as we know it. One example of an Ideology I could give you that also heavily impacts our modern world would be Racism. This Ideology was a result of a mix of both Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses working hand in hand. For instance, as the media and local government spread the ideology of Racism, the local law enforcement agencies made sure it was in effect using methods such as segregation.
Anastasios Katehis Response to Discussion Board 3.1
Ideologies are a collection of beliefs and ethical values that people and all state apparatuses hold true to themselves. For the most part, ideologies heavily affect and impact our modern society and world as we know it. This is because Ideologies are passed down from generation to generation and from state apparatuses to us as people. There are many different reasons as to why people hold different Ideologies.
For instance, some people simply just choose to believe in what was passed down from their older generation of family and relatives or their most convenient state apparatus. On the other hand, others choose to completely challenge the beliefs and ideas passed from those around them for many different reasons. Furthermore, in order to further illustrate ideology itself, an example of an ideology passed down from the state apparatuses being school is that we as a society should obey a certain bell schedule and time schedule for our education system and typical work day as future employees.
Another way to understand ideology through example would be how different government parties have different ideologies. For this example, I’m going to use the conservative and liberal parties by comparing their extremely different ideologies. First of all, the primary conservative ideology concepts are favoring traditional values and capitalism. However, the liberal parties’ main ideologies favor values such as equality and liberty. Last but not least, the last way to further your knowledge of ideology would be through Althusser’s concept of ideology. This concept essentially states that because of the passing of ideologies through all different sorts of apparatuses and generational passing of ideas, it helps keep society in place and a certain general standpoint with certain main ideologies and concepts that run modern society.
