The army, police, court, and jail system comprise the Repressive State Apparatus. The main social purpose of the government, courts, police, and military forces is to intervene in politics on behalf of the ruling class’s interests, by suppressing the subordinate social classes when needed, using either violent or peaceful coercive measures. Althusser calls this repressive because of its limited freedom and you are told what is to be expected.
Althusser claims that ideological state apparatuses utilize tactics other than physical violence to attain the same goals as RSA. Educational institutions, media outlets, churches, social and sports groups, and the family may be among them.
The RSA and the ISA vary in that the repressive state apparatus acts as a unitary entity, but the ideological state apparatus is heterogeneous in nature and multiple in function. The ultimate power of the governing ideology, however, connects the diverse ISA.
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