Matching Pairs Foucault's view Online version Foucault's view on power relation. by Luisa Farieta 1 Michel Foucault thinks that power is not concentrated... 2 Where there is power... 3 Foucault investigated the problem of power... 4 The French thinker examines how discipline, as a type of self-regulation... 5 The power in action is the relations between... 6 From Foucault's perspective... 7 The disciplinary structure described by Foucault is the panopticon... 8 the power is more like something that acts and operates in a certain way... 9 From Althusser's perspective... 10 the power relations between individuals cannot be reduced to... ...the individual and the society, especially its institutions. ...from a critical and histical viewppoint. ...master-slave or oppressor-victim relations ...power is understood as the capacity of an agent to impose his will over the will of the powerless, or the ability to force them to do things they do not wish to do. ...power is not something that can be owned, but rather something that acts and manifests itself in a certain way. ... an architectural structure revealed by Jeremy Bentham as a way to arrange prisoners ...encouraged by institutions, becomes the norm in modern societies. ...it's more a strategy than a possession. ...but diffuse throughout the whole society. ... there is resistence