Reproducing capitalism requires family, schools, church, and media, not just production

Evidence

But this expanded notion of “social reproduction” precisely requires the agency of all those apparatuses which are apparently not directly linked in with production as such. The reproduction of labor-power through the wage requires the family ; the reproduction of advanced skills and techniques requires the education system ; the “reproduction of the submission to the ruling ideology” requires the cultural institutions , the church and the mass media , the political apparatuses and the overall management of the state, which, in advanced capitalism, increasingly takes all these other, “non-productive” apparatuses into its terrain. Since the state is the structure which ensures that this “social reproduction” is carried through (a) with the consent of the whole society, since the state is understood as “neutral,” above class interests, and (b) in the long-term interests of the continued hegemony of capital and of the ruling class bloc, Althusser calls all the apparatuses involved in this process (whether or not they are strictly organized by the state) “ideological state apparatuses.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 909

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Althusser’s expansive ISAs concept that extends the state into family, church, education, and media.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Frankfurt School reading where the Institute located social reproduction in culture and religion rather than production. — connects to: Capitalist-class objectives, not reformer ideals, have actually shaped US schooling — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 569; Capitalism delegates familial discipline to overburdened teachers. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 55