- 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 apparatuses, that can enforce behavior directly, such as the police and the criminal justice system. A way of controlling violence with higher authorities. Althusser calls it repressive because it’s limiting freedom. It takes away the freedom of one by punishing them when they dont follow laws or rules from the authorities.
2. Let’s do the same for the Ideological State Apparatuses. What are they, how do they seem to work?
Ideological state apparatuses are methods other than physical violence to achieve the same objectives as Repressive state apparatuses. Both have the same purpose but there’s different techniques to reach their purpose. School , politics and media are the main stream that helps ideological state apparatuses are being applied.
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?
Both are different because repressive functions with violence while ideology tries to find other techniques to go about things. Ideological state apparatuses use manipulation as their direct force.
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.
An example of ideology is the group communist. This falls in the category of repressive.
