Subject, power y and commitment: links among community psychology and socio-constructionism

Abstract

Psychology is the science that studies behavior. Its structuralist tradition has influenced the development of intervention methods focused on the psyche, behavior and self. In turn, positivism collaborated with the construction of a system of ideas based on universality, standardization, evaluation, measurement, prognosis and objectivity, aspects present in much more in psychology. With the arrival of postmodernism, it seems like certainties crack and a new vision appear to look at reality. In this way, socio-constructionism and the critical paradigm within Psychology community, constitute postmodern approaches and fields of action that assume a new way of establishing relationships and processes of change in people, groups and communities, assuming social and relational complexity in their interventions. This article has the purpose of identifying epistemological and methodological links, deepening the categories of “subject, power and commitment”, which make it possible to achieve respectful, dialogic and horizontal practices, and that contribute to promoting new narratives in the field of psychology.