Sujetos y comunidades frente a problemas contemporáneos

Abstract

Currently our societies are characterized by systematic and progressive processes of change originated from multiple dimensions, producing the consequent social transformations of the social space inhabited by the subjects and the communities of which they are part. This edition of Psicoperspectivas brings together nine investigations of free themes developed in different geographical contexts: Colombia, Portugal and Chile, and address, in turn, different research areas: education, mental health and communities, as well as work. The principle that acts as the thread of the volume is the question by the subjects and the communities before the contemporary problems that cross our societies: multiplication of the axes of inequality, changes in the familiar sphere and in the relations of gender, emergence of new structures of participation and multilevel government. These changes transform the four large areas of intervention of social policies (protection, employment, gender and exclusion), to which are added the new regulations and work modalities linked to the massification of new technologies, as well as the reconfiguration of ties social networks and support networks that shape and determine the well-being of people in the social space.