On the role of the social psychologist

Abstract

Social psychology is a very complex discipline, at the center of which resides a cluster of thoughts that are often more diverse than similar. However, something must unite them, something must function as the common thread that links all that complexity. The question, then, would be: what defines social psychology as a discipline? The answer does not seem to lie in the objects of study of the discipline itself, such as everyday life; the symbolic and semantic structures that enable interaction; language and its possibilities to construct reality; interpersonal, group or cultural relationships; society as a thought; the history and characteristics that define a place; what makes people stay in a "community" or any other that one of our students decides to investigate and, for this reason alone, introduce the accumulation of content that social psychology has been interested in.