Praxis in Community Social Psychology and Public Policies (or about their political sense)

Abstract

The utopian project of Critical Social Psychology, since its emergence, seeks to point the way to human emancipation, as well as it is based on original meanings and premises of the critical form that finds its main value in a nodal concept: praxis; that characterizes its double tel: critical and political. In its political telos it is inserted in the work with groups next to subaltern communities in the horizon of the processes of awareness, political struggle and elevation of the solidary relations and of subjects of rights. Despite the inclusion of Social Psychology within the scope of Public Policies, expressing your interest in the dynamics of modes of social intervention, the question about the meaning of this insertion is still relevant: ethical-political commitment or market demand? The work of social psychology has taken place within institutions and public policies, which define a series of bureaucratic techniques for psychosocial work, which intend interventions aimed at the interests of the State and capitalist logic, and such works do not start from the premise of the organization of group relations and awareness of the subordinate classes, but of the need to attend to a high contingent of users, which, in turn, makes psychosocial and community practices strictly pragmatic, objectivist and technocratic, and the axiom of practices as possible praxis circumscribes itself as atopic signifier.