Transformative Social Psychology

The book adopts a critical interdisciplinary perspective, examining the crisis and prospects of the social psychological domain. It ventures into the realm of social psychology, metatheory, integrative potential, and activism in support of the socially and economically oppressed.

Chetan Sinha is a psychology professor at Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, India. He authored The Power Dynamics of Education: Shaping the Structure of School Education in India (2023). He writes on the psychology of power applied to different psychological domains, emphasizing social representations, social identity, and critical pedagogy.

Introduction 1. Towards transformative social psychology in India 2. Reimagining interdisciplinarity and the idea of global 3. Developing social psychology for social justice: Reflection on methodology and theory 4. Data and social justice 5. Is decolonizing social psychology transformative? 6. Doing critical social psychology in India 7. Gatekeeping social psychology: Agenda for social justice and social change Concluding remarks