ANTB64H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Elinor Ochs, Anne Allison, White Bread
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Final exam study guide: ideological state apparatus: japanese mothers and obento: the lunch- The author draws upon louis althusser"s idea that power is a force that operates in ways that are subtle, disguised, and accepted as everyday social practice. Althusser differentiated between two major structures of power in modern capitalist societies: state apparatus (sa) and ideological stat apparatus (isa). Isa is a structure of power through institutions that have over function other than apolitical and/or administrative one: mass media, education, health and welfare, for example. Isa is the most influential in capitalist societies. It can be far more reaching and insidious than sa, hidden in movies we watch, the music we hear, textbooks we read, it is overlooked because it is protected. It is so potent because it becomes not only ours but us- the terms and machinery by which we structure ourselves and identify who we are. The author links the concept of isa with the obento.