1.What is a Repressive State Apparatus? Why does Althusser call it “repressive”? Can we explain his choice of words here. Give an example.
According to the video, the emphasis of the Repressive State Apparatus is to keep people’s behavior be controlled. The strategy is through the threat of violence which is related to the force from police, courts, and prisons. By doing that to motivate people to follow the social norm, and don’t break the rule of the system. So that they can be more easy to control people and execute their legislation smoothly. The reason Althusser calls it repressive because it helps people to understand the force to limited people’s freedom by society and government especially the political system. In other words, most people obey the rule is because fear of the consequences. For example, school will call student’s parents or the police to step in if student doesn’t follow the rule, by that to maintain their management.
- Let’s do the same for the Ideological State Apparatuses. What are they, how do they seem to work?
Ideological State Apparatuses is bonded with education system which is the most powerful and mandatory. The structures is to guild student to be obedient and discipline to follow the society’s rules. Seemingly students have freedom to chose obedient or authority, however, the repressive apparatus would keep them away from freedom if they don’t obedient the rule.
3.How are the Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses different from each other? What is the difference between the two?
The Repressive State Apparatuses is to control people by threaten them what circumstances are for any disobedience to limited individual’s right. But, Ideological State Apparatuses is non violence but it refers to guild people doing good in the society, it related to individual’s internalize such as education, self-awareness, personal experience, and religion.
4.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.
