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Globalization, Neo‐Liberalism and Community Psychology
Author(s) -
Nafstad Hilde Eileen,
Blakar Rolv Mikkel,
Carlquist Erik,
Phelps Joshua Marvle,
Rand-Hendriksen Kim
Publication year - 2009
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 - 10.1007/s10464-008-9216-6
Subject(s) - health psychology , globalization , community psychology , liberalism , public health , psychology , sociology , social science , social psychology , political science , criminology , medicine , law , politics , nursing
Abstract A longitudinal analysis (1984–2005) of media language in Norway is presented, demonstrating how the current globalized capitalist market ideology is now permeating this long‐established Scandinavian welfare state. This ideological shift carries powerful implications for community psychology, as traditional welfare state values of equal services based on a universalistic principle are set aside, and social and material inequalities are increasingly accepted. The methodology developed in the present study may serve as a “barometer of community changes”, to borrow a metaphor used by Sarason (2000).