Poverty and Community

Representations of Poverty in British Newspapers: A Case of ‘Othering’ the Threat?

“…Although attributional research provides the most well‐developed corpus of poverty research in psychology, in recent times, psychology and related disciplines have witnessed a resurgent focus on understanding poverty in the context of the wider social processes. The relevance of issues such as community (Sanchez, Cronick, & Wiesenfeld, ), place (Spink, ) and justice (Carr, ) has been brought to the fore. This paper seeks to make a contribution to this growing body of literature and discusses the results of a study that draws on social representations theory (SRT) to examine the understandings of poverty that are presented and discussed in British newspapers.…”

Book review: Susan Pick and Jenna T. Sirkin, Breaking the Poverty Cycle: The Human Basis for Sustainable Development

“…Nonetheless, the extent of socio-economic inequality in Latin America remains high and its link with poorer health well established. There is also a need to consider the potential value of the seemingly more collectively oriented ‘Community Social Psychology’ which has been very successfully developed and practised within Latin America (Sánchez et al, 2003). Beyond Latin America, the book is clearly optimistic about transferring Programming for Choice to other continents.…”