Residency webinar 2. Psychology under capitalism (Ontology 2)

Overview

In our second part on ontology we will continue to build on the foundations we have laid by looking at how society works under capitalism, how it allows us to act and prevents us from acting depending on where we lie in its hierarchies, in order to think about how we might change society to improve the psychologies of those who live within it.

We will first think about how these hierarchies are formed by introducing the concept of class-conflict.

We will then explore the linked theory of class consciousness to help understand how capitalism acts to maintain itself by shaping our subjectivity in three primary ways:

1. via ideology and the shaping of social norms
2. via direct forms of oppression, and
3. via the imperative to earn money.

Key learning outcomes

By the end of the seminar you should have an understanding of:

• Class conflict/Class consciousness
• Ideology
• Direct Repression/Violence
• Mute Compulsion – how if we don’t participate in capitalism (earning money), we suffer
• How identity and class interact with capitalist social relations.
• How traditional liberal psychology has acted to support the status quo
• Explore what a radical psychology might offer in terms of challenging existing hierarchies at the level of ideology and class consciousness.

Tickets

• Standard: £39
• Trainee/student: £20 (you must register using your FE/HE .ac.uk email address

All webinars will be recorded

All ticket holders will receive a link to a recording of the session – to rewatch or in case you can’t attend live. Recordings are only available to ticket holders.

About the ‘Radical Psychology, Real Change’ webinar series

Radical Psychology, Real Change will be a monthly seminar series that attempts to address the problems outlined above by reviving the legacy of our radical forebears, critiquing the false radicalism of current practice and presenting new ways of thinking in order to push for revolutionary new ways of thinking in the psychological professions, so that as psychologists we can go out into the world and make real change.

The seminar series will be accessible to all psychologists, at all levels of their career from training through to management. Its analytical framework will be founded on a different set of key thinkers and ontological presuppositions than you will find on psychology doctoral courses and will fundamentally challenge many of the established norms set out within those institutions.