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Leading the Way on Diversity: Community Psychology's Evolution from Invisible to Individual to Contextual
Author(s) -
Bond Meg A.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1002/ajcp.12083
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , health psychology , situated , community psychology , action (physics) , epistemology , sociology , social psychology , cultural psychology , cultural diversity , psychology , public health , anthropology , computer science , philosophy , medicine , physics , nursing , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
To take up the AJCP editor's call to think forward in this article, I offer up three challenges that revolve around further contextualizing our understandings of diversity, i.e., reconsidering the notion of “difference” between discrete categories; more fully emphasizing diversity as socially situated; and further delving into local, setting‐specific practices that shape the meanings of diversity. Enhanced attention to these three challenges can transform theory, research, and action about diversity as we move into community psychology's next 50 years.