Q 1: The oppressive state apparatus is a broad concepts utilized to gain control over the people. Consider it a factory producing repression which assist in having the ruling class rain superior over the working class. Policing, prisons, the courts, government branches, etc. helps sustain this process. It is led by A mentally and physically manipulative method which condones violence; please utilize this tactic of keeping people scared and instilling fear to seize control over the minorities.

Q 2: ideological state apparatus was birthed to indicate institutions like family fields, education, churches, media and law. The purpose is to avoid the status quo from shifting and by allowing people “options and the rights to choose.”

Q 3: The repressive state apparatus operates as a unified whole for it to control large quantities of the population by manuevering fear and violence. The ideological sit apparatus utilizes methods not pertaining to violence to further attain their goals.

Q 4:

1. Representative Apparatus states allude to the threat of violence that controls people. It must do with governmental organizations like police, judiciary, and jails, which are afraid among those who believe it will be the best method to control people and therefore society. This is because Althusser considers it oppressive since it is a type of violence that should terrify and deter individuals from exercising liberty as ordinary people.

2-Deological state apparatuses are linked to the most powerful and compulsory schooling system. The frameworks are designed to guide students to be obedient and to obey the laws of society. However, it appears that Students can use attentive or authoritative apparatuses if they do not follow the norm, which will keep them from freedom.

3-The Repressive State Apparatuses are intended to control individuals by threatening them with the conditions in which restricted individual rights are disobedient. However, the ideological State apparatus is non-violence but refers to the guilds that work well in society and to the internalization of individuals, such as schooling, identity, personal observations, and religion.

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Question 1

According to Louis Althusser, a Repressive State Apparatus is a system in which individuals are controlled employing fear and violence. This means that the government puts in a mechanism to control the people. Through this system, the police, courts, prisons, etc., are used to instill fear into the general public. With this system, people are threatened with violence should they not heed the rules and regulations. This is why Althusser calls it repressive because it threatens people from enjoying their rights and freedoms.

Question 2.

Ideological State Apparatuses functions through ideology. Here, institutions such as the church and schools play a significant role in controlling how people should behave in society. People are thought to be respectful and law-abiding. Violence is not prevalent in the ideological state apparatus as it aims at making individuals become patriotic and good citizens. It is institutions such as family, religion, churches, and schools that culminate this excellent behavior in the people to become good subjects.

Question 3.

The major difference between the Repressive and Ideological State Apparatus is that the repressive apparatus operates on the ideology of violence and fear, which makes its people subordinates to the system. People are controlled through violence and the instillment of fear in the repressive apparatus state. In the Ideological Apparatus state, good values are taught to people by family, the church, and the schools by way of implementing structures that will help them become good followers.

Question 4.

This is picture depicts a Repressive State Apparatus.

1.The Repressive State Apparatus is a general notion used to control the people. It’s like a machine of repression that make the ruling class dominate over the working class. This is done through policing, the courts, prisons, government administrators etc… It operates by means of mental and physical coercion and violence for example the government and the police uses fear to control the people especially minorities.

2. Ideological State Apparatus a term created to indicate institutions such as education, churches, family, media and law. It’s supposed to prevent changes to the status quo, by giving the people “options and the rights to “chose”.

3. Repressive State apparatus function as a unified entity. To control the masses with fear and violence Ideological State Apparatus uses methods other than violence to achieve their goals.

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This picture represent Repressive State apparatus.

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 Althusser, Repressive State Apparatus is defined as a controlling mechanism used through fear of violence factors used upon authorities, which includes law enforcement, courts and prisons. Althusser considers it “repressive” to emphasize that the social or political system will inhibit the freedom of an individual or group of people to showcase suppression. It declares that our freedom as a citizen can be stripped away immediately by authority to maintain foreable regulation. 

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

Ideological State Apparatuses are used with institutions such as schools, universities, churches, family, media, trade unions, and law, which are typically not run by the state, but are used as masks to hide the true agenda of the state. Those institutions with “masks”, communicate the values of the ruling class as original ideas. This is done to maintain order in a society, and above all to reproduce capitalist relations of production. Ideological state apparatuses prevent change to the status quo and maintain the status quo by giving you a “choice”. 

3. Important: this question will appear on our exam: How are the Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses different from each other? What is the difference between the two?

The difference between Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses is it’s functions. Repressive State Apparatus is represented through a centralized organization under the leadership of the classes of power, however Ideological State Apparatuses uses less tension compared to repressive. The ideological state is grasped by the ruling class of ideology. 

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. Next to your example, specify if this is an example of repressive or ideological apparatuses at work. I’ll start off by giving an example.

This is an example of ideology, which demonstrates how the media / school tells all students they need to get through high school and get to college because they’ll need a college degree but there are people who don’t need college degrees and who can do plenty of work like skilled laborers (lineman, electrician, plumbers). 

Representative Apparatus refers to individuals following a system, in which case they may fear. This specific status reflects authority figures in the community, that even just the visuals can cause fear which have consequences that are tied to it. For example, if a hit and run occurs, the driver fears the consequences and therefore left the scene.

On the other hand, Ideological status apparatus are embedded by a sort of institution, family, mass media or political party. These are characteristics that can be learned or taught over time, this also does not involve violence. It is set for individuals to keep up with traditions or customs one may have. It can also be defined as being controlled by individuals. It can be seen in the way children obey their schedules and follow them as close as they can.

The biggest difference between representative and ideological apparatus is one creates fear, while the other doesn’t. Representative represents individuals feeling threaten in their day to day life and knowing the authority figures and the consequences that come with it. Ideological apparatus can revolve around things that are learned or adopted by people from different institutions, either learning it from a young age or as an adult.

This Picture represents Repressive ideology. The words printed on the hands represents the groups of people that may fear authority. The words printed on the cuffed hands also represent the groups that suffer due to violence.

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

            The repressive States Apparatus refers to threat of violence in which people are controlled. It is related to government organism such as police, court and prison which ingrain fearful among people believing that it is the better way to controlling individuals and thus the entire society. the reason Althusser calls it repressive because it is a form of violence that frighten people and prevents them from exerting freedom as a normal citizen should be.

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

Ideological States Apparatuses is related to the structures such as church and education in which people learn ethics, acquire a good behavior and thus knowing how to be obedient and respectful for the society’s rules and values in structural manners.

3. Important: this question will appear on our exam: How are the Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses different from each other? What is the difference between the two?

The difference between them is that the repressive state Apparatus is violent, and it is a fearful way to controlling the society, while the ideological apparatus is not violent and it rely to the educational structures, religion and family to helping people to learn values and thus form a good subject in the society.    

  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. 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.

This pictures emphasizes Martin Luther King ideology about equality

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.

2. 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.

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

The repressive state apparatus refers to the police, courts, prisons, and military. When the police and their specialized auxiliary teams “cannot control the situation,” they will directly intervene as an additional amount of pressure to suppress them. It also refers to the heads of state and the government above all this and administrative agencies. Which is mainly legal violence that the government would choose to do when thighs are out of control.

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

The ideological state apparatus is the real material basis on which the “political unconscious” depends, is the territory for institutionalized discipline and legalized “production” of individuals, and a set of seemingly mild but violent social control tools.

3. Important: this question will appear on our exam: How are the Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses different from each other? What is the difference between the two?

There is only one repressive state apparatus, but there are many ideological state apparatuses. And the unified repressive state apparatus is entirely in the public domain; on the contrary, most of the ideological state apparatuses, which are decentralized, are part of the private domain. Churches, parties, labor unions, families, certain schools, most newspapers, various cultural speculations, etc., are all private.

4. Post an example of ideology. This could be a piece of writing, an image, video, pdf document, visual art, or music, a clip from a movie. Next to your example, specify if this is an example of repressive or ideological apparatuses at work.

This is a photo of Black people in jail. I want to use it as an example of ideology that shows racism causes the innocents to be forced to go to jail, which is also an ideological apparatus.