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

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

Ratner, Carl

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Series: Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sci

CognitionGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3030280284
ISBN13: 9783030280284
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 8 2020
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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