Abstract
The participation process from a psicosocial approch. We present this paper which is the result of a documental investigation on the participation process seen from a psicosocial approach. This analysis had as its main purpose to identify some processes which generate participation. To achieve this objective, we reviewed 90 texts on social development, community, and participation, of wich 36 were used for the analysis because in them, participation was considered as a necessary process to achieve communitary development. From different analises we delimited several conceptual fields such as: definition, purposes, modalities, conditioners, effects, and obstacles, and also their universes: community, program, and individual, conceived as a social subjetct. The categories contained in each field and the identified universes allowed us to construct different models for answering the investigation's guiding question: whic are participation's generating processes?, and also these other questions: what participation is?, how does it take place?, which is its purpose?, what happens when one participates?, and finally why doesn't participation take place?. The method that we use was the articulated rebuilding.
