Keywords
Brazil
programs
science
profession
psychology
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Abstract
A comparative study of the development of the psychological science in Argentina and Brazil in the period 1930 and 1980 is carried out, based on the analysis of a variety of primary and secondary sources from a historical stand point. It is analyzed the role Psychology had in State planning and the relationships between scientific and professional model. Analogue processes of reception and constitution of the field and institutions are described until the creation of the psychology programs, when the greater State support and planning of Psychology development took place. Afterwards, the most meaningful differences are found between these countries. In Argentina scientific culture tended to be displaced from psychology programs, as well as the State support to psychology research. In Brazil, since the 1960 decade, the technological development in the southeast region, and the dictatorial government fostered the spread of a psychological culture among urban middle class people. The State strongly supported psychology postgraduate programs and research activity.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.