“The present volume not only provides illuminating insight, but may serve as the

visionary source for a new and liberated social psychology. Judging from the
contributions to the present volume, I find four attributes particularly notable:
Value invested, Pluralist, Intellectually expansive and Temporally sensitive. I see
this book as a significant historical marker, for it may be possible that in unfurling
the banner of social psychology, it can launch the formation of a new and unifying

New Waves in Social Psychology

Edited by  Raudelio Machin Suarez
community of inquiry.”
—Kenneth J. Gergen, Psychology Department, Swarthmore College,
Pennsylvania, USA

This book presents an update on social psychology as a disciplinary space and

research field. First, it discusses the irruption of research methods from other
cultural niches in the instituted academic area. Then, the second and third
chapters discuss the role of Critical Psychology for community emancipation in
hybrid settings and the development of Vygotsky’s theory in Latin America. The
four and five chapters offer some questions on contemporary legal and political
culture. The Sixth and seventh chapters ask how to reconceptualise the studies
on Social Imaginary or childhood. The eighth and ninth chapters present topics as
performativity, cybernetic, subjectivities, and technology networks in health-
related social support. In the last chapter, we ask: Are networks cause of the
human condition or a result of it? Is virtuality a condition and, at the same time,
a result of the human? What could offer a psychoanalytic ethnographic approach
to recover the human as an intimate experience of bond in social networks?

Raudelio Machin Suarez, PhD is a Psychologist and gained his PhD from the
University of Havana. He is Director of the Magister in Psychology and Intervention
in Mental Health at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at Andrés Bello
University, Chile. He has published: Integration in Psychotherapy: Birth and death
of a myth (1998); Epistemological causes of the predominance of positivism in
educational research (2010); Cuban political imaginary (2011); Organicity of youth
political movements (2014), and more than twenty scientific articles.
New Waves
in Social Psychology
Edited by 
Raudelio Machin Suarez

Foreword by  Kenneth Gergen

ISBN 978-3-030-87405-6

9 783030 874056
“The present volume not only provides illuminating insight, but may serve as the
visionary source for a new and liberated social psychology. Judging from the
contributions to the present volume, I find four attributes particularly notable:
Value invested, Pluralist, Intellectually expansive and Temporally sensitive. I see
this book as a significant historical marker, for it may be possible that in unfurling
the banner of social psychology, it can launch the formation of a new and unifying

New Waves in Social Psychology

Edited by  Raudelio Machin Suarez
community of inquiry.”
—Kenneth J. Gergen, Psychology Department, Swarthmore College,
Pennsylvania, USA

This book presents an update on social psychology as a disciplinary space and

research field. First, it discusses the irruption of research methods from other
cultural niches in the instituted academic area. Then, the second and third
chapters discuss the role of Critical Psychology for community emancipation in
hybrid settings and the development of Vygotsky’s theory in Latin America. The
four and five chapters offer some questions on contemporary legal and political
culture. The Sixth and seventh chapters ask how to reconceptualise the studies
on Social Imaginary or childhood. The eighth and ninth chapters present topics as
performativity, cybernetic, subjectivities, and technology networks in health-
related social support. In the last chapter, we ask: Are networks cause of the
human condition or a result of it? Is virtuality a condition and, at the same time,
a result of the human? What could offer a psychoanalytic ethnographic approach
to recover the human as an intimate experience of bond in social networks?

Raudelio Machin Suarez, PhD is a Psychologist and gained his PhD from the
University of Havana. He is Director of the Magister in Psychology and Intervention
in Mental Health at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at Andrés Bello
University, Chile. He has published: Integration in Psychotherapy: Birth and death
of a myth (1998); Epistemological causes of the predominance of positivism in
educational research (2010); Cuban political imaginary (2011); Organicity of youth
political movements (2014), and more than twenty scientific articles.
New Waves
in Social Psychology
Edited by 
Raudelio Machin Suarez

Foreword by  Kenneth Gergen

ISBN 978-3-030-87405-6

9 783030 874056
“The present volume not only provides illuminating insight, but may serve as the
visionary source for a new and liberated social psychology. Judging from the
contributions to the present volume, I find four attributes particularly notable:
Value invested, Pluralist, Intellectually expansive and Temporally sensitive. I see
this book as a significant historical marker, for it may be possible that in unfurling
the banner of social psychology, it can launch the formation of a new and unifying

New Waves in Social Psychology

Edited by  Raudelio Machin Suarez
community of inquiry.”
—Kenneth J. Gergen, Psychology Department, Swarthmore College,
Pennsylvania, USA

This book presents an update on social psychology as a disciplinary space and

research field. First, it discusses the irruption of research methods from other
cultural niches in the instituted academic area. Then, the second and third
chapters discuss the role of Critical Psychology for community emancipation in
hybrid settings and the development of Vygotsky’s theory in Latin America. The
four and five chapters offer some questions on contemporary legal and political
culture. The Sixth and seventh chapters ask how to reconceptualise the studies
on Social Imaginary or childhood. The eighth and ninth chapters present topics as
performativity, cybernetic, subjectivities, and technology networks in health-
related social support. In the last chapter, we ask: Are networks cause of the
human condition or a result of it? Is virtuality a condition and, at the same time,
a result of the human? What could offer a psychoanalytic ethnographic approach
to recover the human as an intimate experience of bond in social networks?

Raudelio Machin Suarez, PhD is a Psychologist and gained his PhD from the
University of Havana. He is Director of the Magister in Psychology and Intervention

New Waves
in Mental Health at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at Andrés Bello
University, Chile. He has published: Integration in Psychotherapy: Birth and death
of a myth (1998); Epistemological causes of the predominance of positivism in
educational research (2010); Cuban political imaginary (2011); Organicity of youth
political movements (2014), and more than twenty scientific articles.

in Social Psychology
Edited by 
Raudelio Machin Suarez

Foreword by  Kenneth Gergen

ISBN 978-3-030-87405-6

9 783030 874056