- A Repressive State apparatus is an apparatus that controls the population, keeping everything together. It is usually violence and seen as a police force and prison. Althusser calls it “Repressive” because with this type of control from the government people would be scared to express their opinion and will repress them because they are scared of the consequences. This is why we are taught in school to be obedient, if we are not it is followed by things like detention and a call home. Fear is implanted into us from the school system as kids to society when we are adults.
- Ideological State Apparatuses are more psychosocial. Like stated in the previous response, they start in school. In school we start learning about the government, how it works and from there we start to have our own beliefs. This of course can be influenced by what we are taught in the first place. The perspective of teachers is also important because they are who we learn from.
- Repressive and Ideological apparatuses are different because Repressive apparatuses are used to plant fear in us while Ideological apparatuses are used to train us. I’d say that Repressive apparatuses are more physical while Ideological apparatuses are more psychological.
I believe that the “School-to-prison pipeline” is a repressive apparatus because we are punished and threatened in school for misbehavior but then we go out to a society where we are also punished and threatened. We are trained to think this a normal procedure.
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