ideological state apparatus

is that ideology which lies in the subjects' external behaviour and not their internal beliefs.

his argument, derived from Althusser, that the power of ideological state apparatuses lies in their subjects' external behaviour and not their internal beliefs (17)...

is the complex of institutions such as education system, family, mass media, religious organizations, through which subjects are made and the sate ideology is pushed forward.

In other words, individuals do not originate as, but become, self-conscious and responsible agents through the interplay of a wide variety of ideological state apparatuses,' such as family, mass media, religious organizations, and especially the educational system. There is no single ideological state apparatus that produces in us the belief that we are self-conscious, responsible agents. Instead, we derive this belief in the course of learning what it means to fulfill the role of a parent, child, teacher, student, administrator, worker, citizen, religious believer, and so forth. (McGee 2013: 90)

ideological state apparatus, n.Definitions

ideological state apparatus