Brazilian psychology and social movements

uma revisão sistemática de literatura

Abstract

This article presents the results of a systematic literature review that aimed to glimpse the state of the art in the historical relationship between psychology and social movements in Brazil. Search was carried out in CAPES and Redalyc databases. Empirical articles whose interest and analysis contemplated one or more social movements were considered. The final analysis included 43 articles that were organized into descriptive categories. Subsequently, the discussion of the data was carried out from the critical psychology framework dialoguing with marxism. The results indicate advances and fundamental efforts in the field of social psychology to break with the individualizing and elitist hegemonic pattern of the historical development of psychology. However, two conclusions are prominent: 1. the depoliticization and ahistoricity of social movements and studied phenomena; 2. the non-definition of projects and the erasure of historical subjects in favor of analyzes that focus on subjective and identity aspects.