HUMAN-DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY - STILL HAZY AFTER ALL THESEYEARS

This paper explores the relationship between community psychology and its commitment to issues of human diversity. It is argued that the evo lving conception of diversity and the emergence of contextualist/const ructionist philosophies of science provide an opportunity to integrate human diversity into research and practice in community psychology. T he history of community psychology's involvement with issues of human diversity is outlined, and an ecological perspective is offered as one framework for incorporating diversity issues into the field.