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