Psychology's Contribution to Socio-Cultural, Political, and Individual Emancipation

• Main Author: Ratner, Carl (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences
• Subjects: Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Critical psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Political sociology.; Political science.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Political Sociology.; Political Science.

This book articulates how psychologists can use their theory, research, and intervention to generate insights into emancipatory social change that is necessary to solve social and psychological problems. These include racism, sexism, civil rights, poverty, militarism, education, and politics. Psycho...

Table of Contents:

• Section I: Developing a Psychological Theory for Scientifically Understanding and Enriching Psychology and Society
• 1: Introduction: Defining Emancipation That Forms the Parameters of Emancipatory, Scientific Psychology
• 2: Martin-Baro's Liberation Psychology
• 3: Vygotsky's Marxist Psychology Is the Scientific Psychology for Advancing Social-Psychological Emancipation
• 4: Social-Psychological-Political Emancipation According to Cultural-Historical/Macro Cultural Psychology
• Section II: Utilizing Vygotsky's Marxist Psychology/Macro Cultural Psychology to Assess and Advance Populist Emancipatory Movements
• 5: Contemporary Populism
• 6: The Populist Debasing of Social Theory: Liberation Psychology, Cultural-Historical Psychology, and Historical Materialism
• 7: Emancipation or Fascism. .