CAS SEE Seminars with Guests: Séamus Power on „World-Making: Field social psychology and processes of social change“ in conversation with the RECAS Fellow Ana Đorđević

Séamus Power introduced the idea of social psychology as world-making. This conceptualization, illuminated by field research, aims to re-expand the dominant social psychological paradigm and create space for different ways of thinking about social psychology. He illustrated the forms and possibilities of this approach through various research projects. First, Power discussed his research on social change and protest movements. Next, he discussed how social psychology contributed to the making of new social realities, and to the study of people making these social realities, in the context of Covid-19. Third, Power presented research illustrating that multiculturalism, not ethnonationalism, is the dominant cultural model in the United States. The lecture ended by outlining the big questions that motivate my current and future research and by considering the implications of viewing social psychology as world-making..