Transformative Social Psychology

The book adopts a critical interdisciplinary perspective and examines 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. This book addresses the sociocultural imagery that stimulated the research in social psychology in India. It explores how trans-disciplinarity will culminate in perspectives and ideas that make social psychology transformative, change-oriented, and responsive to various social challenges. The book will be helpful to teachers, scholars, and students interested in understanding the social psychology of India. This book will be a valuable reference read in interdisciplinary social sciences and schools of psychology, political science, sociology, philosophy, and critical legal studies. It provides an accessible and engaging approach to dealing with the complexities of interdisciplinary social psychology in India.

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