Louis Althusser

• Althusser believed the family was a feature of the ideological state apparatus, along with education, religion and the mass media.
• Society cannot function through force alone- ideology is key to maintaining social control.
• Institutions have moved from the public to the private sphere, and under bourgeoisie control.
• Institutions like family, education and religion make up the ideological state apparatus and are used to spread bourgeoisie ideology and keep the proletariat in false consciousness.
• Institutions like police and the army are part of the repressive state apparatus and use force to achieve social control.