Reaching Higher in Community Psychology--Social Problems, Social Settings, and Social Change英文资料.pdf

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 37, Nos. 1/2, March 2006 ( C 2006) DOI: 10.1007/s10464-005-9008-1 Reaching Higher in Community Psychology: Social Problems, Social Settings, and Social Change1 Rhona S. Weinstein2,3 Published online: 9 February 2006 Forty years after the founding of community psychology, we have yet to deliver on the full promissory note of our birth, where we were poised to address social problems, social set- tings, and social change. Despite some success, we are at risk for selling ourselves short, for dying out in the discipline of psychology, and for failing to improve the common good. Given changes in demographics and in the safety net, the problem of entrenched disparities is even more urgent—in perception of the other, in the provision of opportunities for development, and in outcomes. Envisioning and enabling will be critical as we work with unified purpose toward a cumulative science where failure will not be predictable. KEY WORDS: community psychology; history; disciplinary culture; social inequalities; public good. I am deeply honored to be the recipient of the university responded that they could not help Yale Seymour B. Sarason Award. This award, reflecting “wives” with their education. the spirit of Sarason’s path-breaking contributions to But Sarason, in taking the time to talk with me the field of community psychology, is both person- face to face, saw an injustice there as well as an op- ally and intellectually mean