Abstract

ROZAS, Germán. Towards a Community Social Psychology South. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2015, vol.5, n.1, pp.278-306. ISSN 1688-7026.

This article discusses some ways to a level we have called symbolically a “Social Community Psychology South”, a discipline that leaves behind the proposals come from developed countries, since mainly housed a Eurocentric gaze proposed. Reference South, is a metaphorical proposal, which has no geographic handle, but appeals to another, the South, meaning the relationship among countries in a different way, incorporates all these people, countries, independent of their location on the globe, who are not included the category of industrialized northern countries. Since the visibility in Latin America social movements associated with indigenous communities, Afro-descendants and others, discipline should be reconfigured so qualitatively realize these new realities. In this sense, some proposals indicate, for example define community from a more relational perspective that substantial. Community is an array of worldviews of the world, which articulates with other communities in mutual determination. Moreover Community action should leave behind and troubleshooting to foster progress and civilizing actions, but directed at social subjectivity open the staging’s interpretation every community of its particular reality, based on deconstructing mechanisms installed tightness ways of seeing the world. Finally, another line to suggest is to emphasize a kind of social transformation aimed at building another epistemology, to incorporate interculturalism, plurinational, collective rights and finally a thematic present today, good living.

Keywords : Community Social Psychology; Inferiority; Collective rights; epistemology.