{"id":11879,"date":"2025-11-15T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=11879"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:40:05","slug":"edwin-michael-ordonez-discussion-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/2025\/11\/15\/edwin-michael-ordonez-discussion-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Michael Ordonez &#8211; Discussion. 3.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Repressive State Apparatus (RSA) is any institution the government uses to maintain control through force or the threat of force. Althusser calls it \u201crepressive\u201d because these institutions can punish people directly arrest them, restrain them, or physically stop them from acting. The whole point is that they can enforce obedience, even if they don\u2019t always use violence. Example: The police are a good example. They can detain or arrest someone, and the possibility of force is always there even when they\u2019re not actively using it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) work differently. Instead of using force, they shape our beliefs and values so that we accept the social system on our own. These are institutions like schools, the media, religion, and even the family. They teach us what is \u201cnormal,\u201d what is \u201cright,\u201d and how we\u2019re supposed to behave. Example: ISAs work kind of quietly they make certain ideas feel like common sense. For example, school doesn\u2019t only teach math or history; it also teaches discipline, punctuality, respecting authority, etc. That\u2019s ideology being taught without anyone calling it that.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The big difference is how they get people to follow the rules.<br>RSAs use force or the threat of force (police, courts, prisons, military). <br>ISAs use ideas and beliefs (schools, religion, media, family).<br>RSAs make you obey because you have to. ISAs get you to obey because you\u2019ve been taught to see the system as normal or natural. So RSAs control bodies, while ISAs control minds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I think this image below represents the ideology as it shows hand of people of many different colors with the texts in the image representing the matters that democracy stands for.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4344\/2025\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4344\/2025\/11\/image.png 275w, https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4344\/2025\/11\/image-200x133.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10873,"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-11879","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\/11879","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\/10873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11881,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions\/11881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11879"}],"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=11879"},{"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=11879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}