Paradigms of community social psychology in six Latin American nations
✍ Scribed by Esther Wiesenfeld
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 109 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
In this article, we present the general theoretical orientations (concepts, theories, and paradigms) as well as methodologies and techniques which have guided the work of community social psychologists in six Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, México, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. The analysis is based on the review of the state of the art of community social psychology in those countries (Sánchez & Wiesenfeld, 1991;Wiesenfeld & Sánchez, 1995). This article presents an important, although nonexhaustive overview, of the development of the discipline on our continent. This analysis allowed us to (a) identify some common goals of community intervention programs, as well as in the principles which guide them; and (b) to explore the possibilities of integrating them into a coherent model that organizes community work and hopefully, stimulates further development of the discipline.