TY - BOOK ID - 48303916 TI - Psychology’s Contribution to Socio-Cultural, Political, and Individual Emancipation PY - 2019 SN - 3030280268 303028025X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Psychology KW - Philosophy. KW - Community psychology. KW - Environmental psychology. KW - Critical psychology. KW - Personality. KW - Social psychology. KW - Cross-cultural psychology. KW - Political sociology. KW - Political science. KW - Community and Environmental Psychology. KW - Critical Psychology. KW - Personality and Social Psychology. KW - Cross Cultural Psychology. KW - Political Sociology. KW - Political Science. KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Mass political behavior KW - Political behavior KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Cross-cultural psychology KW - Ethnic groups KW - Ethnic psychology KW - Folk-psychology KW - Indigenous peoples KW - National psychology KW - Psychological anthropology KW - Psychology, Cross-cultural KW - Psychology, Ethnic KW - Psychology, National KW - Psychology, Racial KW - Race psychology KW - National characteristics KW - Mass psychology KW - Psychology, Social KW - Human ecology KW - Social groups KW - Personal identity KW - Personality psychology KW - Personality theory KW - Personality traits KW - Personology KW - Traits, Personality KW - Individuality KW - Persons KW - Self KW - Temperament KW - Psychology, Critical KW - Communism and psychology KW - Cognitive ergonomics KW - Ecological psychology KW - Ecopsychology KW - Ecotherapy KW - Environmental quality KW - Environmental social sciences KW - Human factors science KW - Psychoeology KW - Psychotherapy KW - Ecological Systems Theory KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Social psychology KW - Sociological aspects KW - Psychological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48303916 AB - 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. Psychology was not developed to directly address social issues. It must therefore be reconceptualised to fulfil this aim. In this book Carl Ratner makes use of Vygotsky’s psychological approach known as ‘cultural-historical psychology’, supplemented by Martin-Baro’s Liberation Psychology and the work of Bourdieu and Foucault to develop an emancipatory psychological theory. This approach is then utilized to lay out a specific program of social and psychological emancipation. This reconstructed psychological theory is also used to evaluate populist movements that aim at social and psychological emancipation. Ratner posits that populism is inadequate to solve social and psychological problems because it misunderstands the nature of society and what it takes to improve society and psychology. This is demonstrated through wide-ranging examples including populist feminism, populist socialism, and populist distortions of liberation psychology and cultural-historical psychology. This lively critique opens a pathway for academic across the social sciences concerned with how their disciplines can be oriented toward understanding and solving social-psychological problems, and will appeal to wide readership including policy makers, and social activists. Carl Ratner is Director of the Institute for Cultural Research and Education, USA and a cultural psychologist working on political aspects of psychology and culture. He is active in the cooperative movement and his previous works include Politics of Cooperation & Co-Ops (2016) and Neoliberal Psychology (2019). . ER -