Psicología comunitaria y expresiones psicosociales de la pobreza: contribuciones para la intervención en políticas públicas

Abstract

The purposeis to analyze, from Community Psychology’s perspective, psychosocial expressions of poverty and their contributions for intervention in public policy. Community Psychology accents the critique about the factors that maintain those material and symbolic aspects that interfere with the subjective constitution of the poor. Exploratory research, quantitative and qualitative, was conducted with 417 adult subjects of a rural and urban community in Brazil. Poverty involves moral explanations about the poor. Family, neighbors and religion are emphasized as sources of support, which high lights the need for strategies then community relations and resizing of performance in public policy.