Reaching Higher in Community Psychology: Social Problems, Social Settings, and Social Change |
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Authors: | Rhona S Weinstein |
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Institution: | (1) University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.;(2) Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Tolman Hall, Berkeley, California, 94720-1650, U.S. |
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Abstract: | Forty years after the founding of community psychology, we have yet to deliver on the full promissory note of our birth, where we were poised to address social problems, social settings, and social change. Despite some success, we are at risk for selling ourselves short, for dying out in the discipline of psychology, and for failing to improve the common good. Given changes in demographics and in the safety net, the problem of entrenched disparities is even more urgent—in perception of the other, in the provision of opportunities for development, and in outcomes. Envisioning and enabling will be critical as we work with unified purpose toward a cumulative science where failure will not be predictable.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the mid-west ECO Conference in Community Psychology held in Saugatuck, Michigan, October 2004. |
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Keywords: | community psychology history disciplinary culture social inequalities public good |
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