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Community psychology in the third world—Turkey: Thoughts from a teaching experience
Author(s) -
Vassaf Gündüz Y. H.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(198107)9:3<280::aid-jcop2290090314>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - ideology , community psychology , international psychology , democracy , authoritarianism , position (finance) , psychology , social science , humanistic psychology , sociology , social psychology , critical psychology , asian psychology , political science , humanism , law , politics , finance , economics
The belief that non‐Western nations of the developing world, which have an authoritarian and anti‐democratic tradition that renders difficult the applicability of community psychology, is considered. A position is taken on behalf of a universal community psychology. Based on the author's teaching experience in a university setting in Turkey, various community psychology concepts such as the “sense of community” and “person‐environment” fit are discussed and a case is made for the community psychologist taking an explicit ideologically progressive position.