Main goal of social system- to let us know how to make these four functional prerequisites work so that

the social system will maintain a state of equilibrium.

Difference of Ideological State Apparatuses and Repressive State Apparatuses- the ideological state
apparatuses is a term developed by the Marxist theorist Louis Althusser to denote institutions such as
education, the churches, family, media, trade unions, and law, which were formally outside state control
but which served to transmit the values of the state, to interpellate those individuals affected by them,
and to maintain order in a society, above all to reproduce capitalist relations of production. While The
Repressive State Apparatus consists of the army, the police, the judiciary, and the prison system. It
operates primarily by means of mental and physical coercion and violence (latent and actual).

Qualitative and Quantitative Method- Qualitative method relies on data obtained by the researcher
from first-hand observation, interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, participant-observation,
recordings made in natural settings, documents, case studies, and artifacts. Quantitative methods
emphasize objective measurements and the statistical, mathematical, or numerical analysis of data
collected through polls, questionnaires, and surveys, or by manipulating pre-existing statistical data
using computational techniques.