Resumen

ASTUDILLO, Cristian Zamora  y  MUNOZ, Álvaro Castillo. An Approach to the Concept Rural Community in Community Psychology. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.37, pp.367-377. ISSN 1519-549X.

This essay approaches the concept of rural community with the purpose of developing implications for the practices of social intervention in rural territories and communities in Latin America from the perspective of social networks in community psychology. To do this, (a) the concept of community in classic and contemporary writings in community psychology; (b) revises the notions of rural community and old rurality elaborated during the 20th century in the context of rural sociology; (c) analyze the recent concepts of new rurality and displacement, distinguishing some of its contributions to the reconfiguration of the concept of rural community and; Finally, (d) the emergence and implications of the territorial perspective and the debate on the territory are analyzed for both the concept of rural community and the approach of psychosocial intervention practices with a focus on social networks in Latin American rural territories and communities.

Palabras clave : Community; Rural Community; Displacements; Territory; Social Networks.

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