A psychology of power that is embedded in societal structures.
Journal
Current opinion in psychology
ISSN: 2352-2518
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Psychol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101649136
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2020
06 2020
Historique:
received:
31
05
2019
revised:
13
06
2019
accepted:
07
07
2019
pubmed:
14
8
2019
medline:
12
8
2021
entrez:
13
8
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Here, we look ahead to a psychology of power that is embedded in societal structures, specifically with regard to the North American context of race, gender, and social class. We argue that studies of power are limited when decoupled from these societal structures of power and we make this argument by examining dominant working definitions and links between power and prosociality. We end with a suggestion that a fully embedded and historical psychological account of social power will require greater constraints on generality, additional descriptive work on the experience of power in everyday life, and methods and samples that bring research on social power out of university spaces and into the places, spaces, and institutions where that power is intertwined.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31404767
pii: S2352-250X(19)30098-3
doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.018
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
86-90Informations de copyright
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