Abstract
This paper aims to discuss the relationship between critique, politics and social psychology. We analyze two existing theoretical conceptions in Brazilian critical social psychology about the idea of the social change, specifically about two models - critical consciousness and political consciousness, formulated from the Latin-American social psychology "crisis". We understand the critic as a practice that makes visible different ways to link science and politics, the politics as articulated to the dimension of the political, and the social psychology as a field of knowledge formed from the dispute over the representation of reality. The discussion contributes to the resumption of the notion of hegemony in Brazilian critical social psychology from a non-essencialist perspective by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, which allows rethinking about the notion of social change and the role of intellectual in the political struggle.
Keywords:
social psychology; critique; politics; social change; power