New Waves in Social Psychology

This book presents an update on social psychology as a disciplinary space and research field. First, it discusses the irruption of research methods from other cultural niches in the instituted academic area. Then, the second and third chapters discuss the role of Critical Psychology for community emancipation in hybrid settings and the development of Vygotsky's theory in Latin America. The four and five chapters offer some questions on contemporary legal and political culture. The Sixth and seventh chapters ask how to reconceptualise the studies on Social Imaginary or childhood. The eighth and ninth chapters present topics as performativity, cybernetic, subjectivities, and technology networks in health-related social support. In the last chapter, we ask: Are networks cause of the human condition or a result of it? Is virtuality a condition and, at the same time, a result of the human? What could offer a psychoanalytic ethnographic approach to recover the human as an intimate experience of bond in social networks? Raudelio Machin Suarez, PhD is a Psychologist and gained his PhD from the University of Havana. He is Director of the Magister in Psychology and Intervention in Mental Health at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at Andrés Bello University, Chile. He has published: Integration in Psychotherapy: Birth and death of a myth (1998); Epistemological causes of the predominance of positivism in educational research (2010); Cuban political imaginary (2011); Organicity of youth political movements (2014), and more than twenty scientific articles. “The present volume not only provides illuminating insight, but may serve as the visionary source for a new and liberated social psychology. Judging from the contributions to the present volume, I find four attributes particularly notable: Value invested, Pluralist, Intellectually expansive and Temporally sensitive. I see this book as a significant historical marker, for it may be possible that in unfurling the banner of social psychology, it can launch the formation of a new and unifying community of inquiry.” - Kenneth J. Gergen, Psychology Department, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA