CHI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leopoldo Zea Aguilar

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Chicano Studies
• Course: CHI 120
• Professor: Yvette G. Flores

Document Summary

That is, the social sciences and helping professions have not represented the worldview that emerged from the experience of the. Americas the mestizo (cid:449)orld(cid:448)ie(cid:449). (cid:863) ma(cid:374)uel ra(cid:373)irez iii, (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:895) Why a mestizo psychology: ramirez argues that the biases inherent in a western worldview will make it difficult for multicultural and multiracial people as well as genetic mestizos to feel included, understood, or appropriately represented by western theories. What is mestizo psychology: the theories, instruments, methodologies and approaches used in western psychology reflect inherent biases that are problematic, the ideas inherent in western psychology are embedded within the colonizing project of. Basic tenets of western psychology: the technological and economic development of a culture or society are synonymous with the degree of psychological development of its members. Ideally the researcher/practitioner will have shared some of the life experiences of those with whom they work: view themselves as partners and equals to the client or research participant.