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'community psychology and politics' by David Smail
Ist Teil von
Journal of community & applied social psychology, 1994-02, Vol.4 (1), p.15-20
Ort / Verlag
Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
1994
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Demystification, eschewing roles that disempower others and enhancing accessibility to the tools of knowledge, are consistent with the aims of community and applied social psychology. Although a focus on psychological empowerment can be a distraction from the need for actual power, it can also enhance it. Psychologists who avoid victim blaming and individual causal attribution biases can contribute to the discourse about social change. This requires both a reinterpretation of the known facts, and a reframing of social analysis. Social scientists and professionals are today's theologians and priests. Our power lies in our legitimation as interpreters of social reality. Teaching the psychology of empowerment, participative decision making and informed consent can influence the powerful as well as the powerless.