This paper promotes a discussion of the social and political struggles from the research of Michel Foucault, in a history of this, pointing contributions analyzes of files and tools that unsettle us by force of questioning that produce and also by the critical attitude and enabling policy and the ethical stance that move us work in social psychology in Brazil. Foucault's legacy is the vast power of his writings and disruptions caused in different areas between researchers and activists in many countries, which says its resonances and the importance of writing about it.
Foucault; history; research; current struggles; criticism