SOC377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Inequality, Nationstates, Dysteleology
15 Oct 2016
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Lecture III: Concepts and theories Part 2
IDEOLOGY AND THE IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUS
-Louis Althusser, proposed the idea of the Ideological State Apparatus (ISA)
-The Repressive State Apparatus (RSA) consists of the police, army, judicial system. It appears
only when the ISA fails
-The ISA is made up of institutions such as the family, schools, religion, government and media.
-the ways to get people into the capitalist system
-schools: change the way they teach
-religion: link between hard work and salvation (Protestant)
-government: make the rules, keep people in line
-media: ideology in representation
-These institutions support the capitalist system performing upkeep and spreading its ideology
-They continually work to integrate and reintegrate people into the dominant system of ideas.
I COME TO BURY MARX, NOT TO PRAISE HIM
-Still overwhelmingly heteronormative (excludes alternative genders, binary way of thinking)
-Often from a male perspective (economic male perspective)
-Ignores numerous other kinds of social inequality
-Gender, Race, ethnicity etc…
-Marx cares more about it being productive in economic sense
-materialist philosophy
-traditionally “women’s work” is not seen as economically productive
-devalues racism experiences, ethnic and racial minorities don’t have access to resources
CRITICAL THEORIES (BEYOND CLASSICAL MARXISM) – reconstructed Marxism
-Can view subcultures as rebellions
-Can also view subcultures as mirrors of the capitalism, patriarchy and racism
-Subcultures may be seen as a reaction to oppression or an expression of youthful creativity.
-Youth subcultures also can be co-opted for the purposes of capitalism
-Some theorists such as John Fiske have talked about youth consumption as a form of resistance
(form of guerilla warfare)
-punk culture – putting themselves outside the capitalist culture
POST-MODERN YOUTH: AGENCY, SUBJECTIVITY AND FRAGMENTATION
-Depending on the position of the people describing it youthful energy is described as ranging
from resistance, rebellion to delinquency
-Build on some of the work of Michel Foucault.
-Youth rebellion seen as the way that young people fit themselves and their identities into
particular discourses (attempting different identities)
-move away from dominant forms of identity
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Document Summary
The ways to get people into the capitalist system. Religion: link between hard work and salvation (protestant) Government: make the rules, keep people in line. Louis althusser, proposed the idea of the ideological state apparatus (isa) The repressive state apparatus (rsa) consists of the police, army, judicial system. The isa is made up of institutions such as the family, schools, religion, government and media. These institutions support the capitalist system performing upkeep and spreading its ideology. They continually work to integrate and reintegrate people into the dominant system of ideas. I come to bury marx, not to praise him. Still overwhelmingly heteronormative (excludes alternative genders, binary way of thinking) Often from a male perspective (economic male perspective) Marx cares more about it being productive in economic sense. Traditionally women"s work is not seen as economically productive. Devalues racism experiences, ethnic and racial minorities don"t have access to resources. Critical theories (beyond classical marxism) reconstructed marxism.
