Abstract

ESTRADA MESA, Angela María. La psicología social en el concierto de la transdisciplinariedad. Retos latinoamericanos^*. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2004, n.18, pp.51-58. ISSN 0123-885X.

The text approaches the relationship between Cultural Studies and current agendas of some the fields of psychology, particularly those of constructivist psychology and gender studies. It sets off by considering qualitative shifts both in the statute of culture and in the objects of science since mid-nineteenth century, which reveal their character as historical constructions that are transformed and even disappear in time. This implies reconsidering the notion of culture, in a way such that it no longer refers to a set of customs and cohabitation systems attached to a particular language and a specific territory. In this context, the article assigns psychology the task of reinventing humankind in order to avoid annihilation, which requires the cultural transformation of the notion of the I. The staring point for this transformation is the consideration of narrative and tale as metaphors for the psychic. The article presents three ways that have been opened and increasingly strengthened in the transformation of the I, at the same time that both psychology and its cultural potential are reconceptualized: practice in the social world, cultural criticism, and the construction of new worlds. Finally, the article presents gender as the critical category that contributes to the configuration of a statute for social research. As a perspective, gender allows for an approach of both processes and social institutions that no only have the power to rule social interaction between diverse subject positions, but also to regulate the production of different subjectivities. The article points at different psychological practices potentially able to transform the I: a hermeneutics of daily practice and the accompaniment of local social networks, the development of collaborative learning.

Keywords : Social psychology; cultural studies; critic potential; gender.

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