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 The power in action is the relations between... 4 From Althusser's perspective... 5 The disciplinary structure described by Foucault is the panopticon... 6 the power is more like something that acts and operates in a certain way... 7 From Foucault's perspective... 8 the power relations between individuals cannot be reduced to... 9 Foucault investigated the problem of power... 10 The French thinker examines how discipline, as a type of self-regulation... ...it's more a strategy than a possession. ...the individual and the society, especially its institutions. ...master-slave or oppressor-victim relations ...from a critical and histical viewppoint. ... an architectural structure revealed by Jeremy Bentham as a way to arrange prisoners ...power is not something that can be owned, but rather something that acts and manifests itself in a certain way. ... there is resistence ...encouraged by institutions, becomes the norm in modern societies. ...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. ...but diffuse throughout the whole society.