{"id":11141,"date":"2025-09-07T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:22:52","slug":"discussion-board-3-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/2025\/09\/07\/discussion-board-3-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Board 3.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A repressive state apparatus, as defined by Althusser, is a part of the state that maintains order and the status quo, created by them, through force or the threat of force. Althusser calls these forces repressive because their power depends on coercion and punishment rather than persuasion, for example, when the police arrest an offender and\/or a court gives a sentence, the state threatens the offender&#8217;s freedom so they may conform.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Ideological State Apparatuses operate less directly than RSAs. They include schools, families, churches, and the media, which spread ideas and values that make people accept the existing social order. They instill morals, values, and approved ideas into the people to create that social order\u2019s version of society. Schools teach a variety of subjects alongside the skills necessary to be a better worker in a capitalist world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The key difference is in their methods. RSAs rely on force or coercion, while ISAs work through ideas and culture. However, Althusser notes that ISAs are ultimately backed by RSAs: if someone resists ideology long enough, the state may use repressive force to make them comply. Together, the two types of apparatuses maintain social stability but in very different ways.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One particularly glaring example of an ideological state apparatus can be Pixar\u2019s 2008 movie: WALL-E. A children&#8217;s movie with a deep message on the impact of consumerism on the environmental health of our planet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-3-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11142,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions\/11142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}