In order to change what is, we need to give speech to what has been, to imagine what might be.

-Adrienne Rich

Modern social theory elaborates a critique of modernity essential to understanding contemporary Western societies and psychology’s place within them. An understanding of politics, mass culture, and oppression is vital for the socially engaged psychological practitioner. Those who would offer cultural leadership find in social critique a historical understanding of contemporary culture.

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