Session 7

I will write about an expert in my field, psychology. He is Ignacio Martín-Baró. He borned in Salvador, and he was killed for  the military force of his country. He was psychologist and priest. He contributed to Social-psycology area. He invented the Social-psychology oriented to liberation of peoples. This was made possible through the concept of Ideology which was elaborated by him. He recognized the value and influence of ideology on popular majorities.

Nowadays, his fundamentals serves to continuing development the Social-psychology, in fact, the Latinoamerican Social-psychology takes constantly his ideas.

I found out in a class of Social-psychology dictated by Roberto Fernandez. He asked us, the students, bring a report about Martín-Baro. In it, we should comment his work and his importance for the Social-psychology, although I must admit that this task didn’t put much effort, Martín-Baró seems to me a great person because he gave a revolutionary perspective to Social-psychology and that’s what I think everyone should do. I guess that knowledge isn’t served if it doesn’t oriented to transform reality.