ABSTRACT
This paper presents discussions on the field of Community Social Psychology (CSP) based on textual productions done over the last decades (1990-2010). The mapping of the set of articles, theses, dissertations and books produced under the CSP sign was the procedure used to discuss what has been done by this movement that has been conceived as one of the contemporary versions of Social Psychology. Those productions are contextualized considering the changes in the course of the profession and the demand for new direction for Social Psychology produced in Latin American territory. The exposition is focused on the theoretical and epistemological bindings of the CSP and the depiction of the community psychologist work. We conclude the work indicating that the diversity of theoretical and epistemological bindings of CSP and the attempt to unify it disregarded the central problem of the effects of their practice and their ethical and political commitments.
Keywords:
community social psychology; history of CSP in Brazil; theories of CSP; Psychologist practice