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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 fourth and fifth chapters offer some questions on contemporary legal and political culture. The sixth and seventh chapters ask how to reconceptualise the studies on Social Imaginary amd childhood. The eighth and ninth chapters present topics as performativity, cybernetic, subjectivities, and technology networks in health-related social support. In the last chapter, the author asks: are networks a 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 concept of being human as the experience of intimate bonding as part of a social network?
List of contents
1. New waves in social psychology. Research practices, beyond the disciplinary epistemic and academic limits.- 2. Critical psychology for emancipating communities.- 3. The historical-social approach and contemporary social psychology.- 4. After the humanisms. How to orient yourself in thinking and in life from now on? (On Jacques Lacan's "Ethics of Psychoanalysis").- 5. Patriotism of the constitution and neo-tomism trends, tensions and psychosocial effects on legal culture.- 6. From social perception and social representation to social imaginary in social psychology theory and research.- 7. Re-entangling childhoods: post-essentialist approaches to children's everyday lives.- 8. Performativity, subjectivities and politics of life. Devices for other agencies.- 9. Networks as Communities. Relationships between technology and health-related social support.- 10. From virtual communities to virtual research. Emerging concepts and research challenges. Ethnography research in the digital era.
About the author
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.
