Subjectivity, social psychology and social problems

Abstract

This paper seeks to problematize some of the key definitions of social psychology and their implications. Various definitions of social psychology are presented, and how they respond to two great theoretical traditions, such as an "experimental" and/or "scientific" versus another "collective" and/or "mass" one. Then the parallelism, sometimes conflictive, of the theories and the university academic theoretical production is described, with the psychosocial interventions of social problems. Faced with these social and public health problems, the categories and modalities of research/action are described, indicating their relevance and development in our context. Finally, it proposes and appeals to a psychology of subjects in contexts as a unifying axis, seeking to avoid psychic or social reductionism.