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Juan Carlos Rodríguez discussion board 4.1

For some reason projects.newyorker is down

For this reason I’ll be using the example the professor used in the professor’s video overview.

  1. Do you notice any similarities in the way social class is discussed in readings 4.1 and 4.2? Do you notice any differences in the way these two readings DIFFERENTIATE between social classes?

    yes, the graph is similar in the way it demonstrates higher class is drastically higher
    Yes there are differences in the video the top 1% were on a league of their own on the far right.

    2. Pick the station closest to where you live. Using the concepts from Reading 4.1, what social class tends to live in your neighborhood? Are you surprised (or not) by the answer? Do you feel it is an accurate representation of the people living in your neighborhood?

      I am not surprised at all with the graph shown. I think it distinguishes Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens accurately based on income in York Street the mean income is $167k usually wealthy people live around that area where lower manhattan and Brooklyn meet. is the trade capital after all. Brooklyn is shown as the place with the less income, in the far left.

      3. Based on Reading 4.2, do you notice a general pattern about social classes in NYC?

        yes, wealthy people live mostly in manhattan. I also noticed that Brooklyn has 22 stops and half of them don’t reach $50,000 but there is a steady enough growth between Brooklyn and Manhattan Queens, however, has a steady decline

        the graph I used

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        discussion board 3.2- Juan Carlos Rodriguez

        1. What is a Repressive State Apparatus? Why does Althusser call it “repressive”? Can we explain his choice of words here. Give an example.

         
        Repressive state apparatus is when the government use force to keep citizens in line and follow rules. This is also why he calls it repressive, because of the use of force in order to keep the population obedient. I think he used the word repressive because which ever country uses repressive state apparatus does not kindly ask citizens to obey the law pretty please with cherry on top instead law is enforced by saying, follow the law and live in society or break the law and you’ll be removed.

        2. Let’s do the same for the Ideological State Apparatuses. What are they, how do they seem to work? 

        ideological state apparatus, they use the ideologies in order to enforce law, like changing someone’s beliefs and shaping their morals and values those values often starts in a school environment. Or for adults in religious institutions like a church.

        3. Post an example of ideology. This could be a piece of writing, an image, video, pdf document, visual art, or music, clip from a movie. Next to your example, specify if this is an example of repressive or ideological apparatuses at work. I’ll start us of off by giving an example.

        In this clip from the critically acclaimed video game, red dead redemption 2 the main character Arthur Morgan went fishing with a little boy named Jack after that we appreciate repressive apparatus from the Pinkerton Detective agency as detective Milton and detective Ross confront Arthur Morgan, both sides get heated up and agent Milton says “you people venerate savagery and you will die savagely”

        later on in the story, the Pinkerton detective agency catch up with the outlaw gang in their own camp:

        in this clip the leader dutch uses ideology to justify his wicked ways, he does what he does to live. after the Pinkerton show up in (1:00) telling everyone that their way of life is coming to an end they can either get with the program and live like decent human beings or alternatively they get locked up or hanged. We also see ideology in Dutch saying “this place is no such thing as civilized it is man so in love with greed, that he has lost himself and found only appetites” Dutch critique civilization by questioning the idea that civilization represents progress which in the time this game takes place historically was a time of expansion and industrialization. He uses the word “greed” when talking about the civilized people, he says that because he argues that society only progresses by biting more than they can chew. Taking what wasn’t theirs and valuing riches over human bonds. Like the bond he has with his gang. In a way, he’s also saying that society and the outlaws have more in common than one might think.

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        Discussion board- Juan Carlos Rodriguez

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        a) Describe what ideology is in a brief paragraph (in your own words). 

        Ideology is essentially who you are based on beliefs, those believes are often influenced by people in our lives from politics to morality. Ideology also helps us distinguish right from wrong. Same ideology is used by the government to distinguish right from wrong. Only differences is the punishment, which often leads to prison.


        b) Give an example illustrating what you wrote in (a).

        when you’re in school and you see someone misbehave and never follow the rules you start to believe that they’ll grow up to no good and often that is the case for people that don’t follow the rules have a higher chance of ending up involved in the criminal system. Teachers try to enforce good ideology on us by Setting rules in the classroom like raising your hands to speak or suspension or detention for those who speak without permission.


        c) Write another paragraph (or two), explaining to your reader with additional details, how you understand ideology.

        ideology is not just limited to behavior, but also your believes when it comes to freedom or equality as you start to develop your ideology, you fall into a certain group type, some end up conservatives other liberal etc.

        (Question) How do you understand the difference between conservative and liberal ideology in US politics? What seem to be the big differences, the dividing line? Given an example to backup your arguments.

        to me, liberal ideology is more focused on equality and higher taxes also benefiting from government involvement. Conservatives believe in the free market lets government involvement and often have religious beliefs like Catholics. There’s also a lot of diversity with liberals compared to conservatives usually conservatives have more money and usually dominated by one race.