- Repressive State Apparatus controls people by fear and violence and favors the ruling class. Repressive State Apparatus is implemented by the prisons, courts, police, and the government. Althusser calls it “repressive” because those under the ruling class are controlled fear or violence therefor repressing them. An example if Repressive Sate Apparatus is the government making laws that are more lenient against white-collar crimes opposed to nonviolent low level crimes. Another example was laws against interracial marriage in the 1950’s.
- Ideological State Apparatuses s per the video prevents change to the status quo. This uses other ways to control the society that doesn’t include fear and violence. This includes politics, schools, churches, and the mass media. An example of Ideological State Apparatuses is following the biblical word of the commandments word for word and if you don’t you are sinning and wont make it to heaven, this keeps people obedient. Another example is political, you’re given a choice but are limited by those choices.
3. Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses are different from each other because one functions on violence and dominates intuitions by using other systems like police and presents to keep society at bay while the other functions on ideology. Repressive State Apparatuses operates on fear and then ideology whereas Ideological State Apparatuses operates on visualize their place in society and then by fear.
This is an image that represents ideological State Apparatus.
