Social Psychology - An Interpretation Based On Historical Materialism

social psychology is an important problem of historical materialism. Frompsychological factor, and we will not be able to correctly understand the historicalinevitability is made up of numerous contingency. Western bourgeois thinkers insocial psychology have many deep, but the vision of historical idealism was destinedto their historical limitations. Unlike social psychological thoughts of westernbourgeois thinkers, historical materialism under the horizon of social psychology hasits unique connotation.Historical materialism under the horizon of social psychology has a wealthof ideological content. As the founder of historical materialism, Marx and Engelsmake social psychological science has been made in sight, and formed a rich socialpsychological ideas. Russian historical materialists Plekhanov took the mantle ofMarx and Engels, for the first time explicitly put forward the social psychologicalcategory of historical materialism, and probes into the connotation of socialpsychology systematically and form a relatively complete social psychological ideas.Under the historical materialism horizon, social psychology has abundantconnotation. It is a low level of social consciousness, is the most direct reflection ofsocial existence; Is social consciousness forms the thought premise; Is one of themotivations of govern human behavior; Is the medium that connects social existenceand social consciousness. As a historical category, social psychology generated bymode of production, material benefits and other factors. These factors and the socialpsychology in the real social life, national psychology, embodied in the spirit of thetime in the class and stratum psychology, occupational psychology and socialideological trend, and many other types.At present, China is in social transition, social psychology has a benigndevelopment, at the same time it still has a series of problems, includingpsychological imbalances is now one of the most prominent problem. From aperspective of historical materialism, theory research and practice analysis of socialpsychology, for us to solve the problem of the contemporary Chinese social psychology and the harmonious social psychology has important theoretical valueand practical value.