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 the power is more like something that acts and operates in a certain way... 3 the power relations between individuals cannot be reduced to... 4 The power in action is the relations between... 5 From Foucault's perspective... 6 The disciplinary structure described by Foucault is the panopticon... 7 Where there is power... 8 From Althusser's perspective... 9 The French thinker examines how discipline, as a type of self-regulation... 10 Foucault investigated the problem of power... ...master-slave or oppressor-victim relations ...encouraged by institutions, becomes the norm in modern societies. ... an architectural structure revealed by Jeremy Bentham as a way to arrange prisoners ...but diffuse throughout the whole society. ...the individual and the society, especially its institutions. ...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. ...it's more a strategy than a possession. ... there is resistence ...from a critical and histical viewppoint.