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