SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses, Ralph Miliband, Louis Althusser
8 May 2016
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Later neo-marxian theory and the state: neo-marxian definitions of the state. The main reason sociologists began to turn to marx in the 1960"s has to do with all the social conflict occurring in this timeframe. Sociologists borrowed a lot from marx, and tried to update and revise his ideas so they could explain what"s going on in contemporary capitalism. Neo-marxian theorists developed various ways to analyze the state. Debate among neo-marxian theorists about how to view the state (different conceptions: an industrial definition of the state. Created the state in capitalist society (1969) The state: is a complex of institutions that interact within a system. An institutional definition includes: the central government, the administration (ex. Civil service, central bank, various public corporations, and various regulatory bodies: the military (ex. Police forces, navy, intelligence services ie. spy agencies: the judicial system, the sub-central government, provincial and local levels of government (levels below the central government that exist, the representative assemblies (ex.
