Social psychology has become a necessary reference when it comes to understanding current sociocultural phenomena. When approaching this discipline, it is convenient to roughly recognize some currents of thought that have exerted a remarkable influence. Since the Middle Ages, the concept of the soul opened an unprecedented panorama that would later be linked to the object of study of psychology; later, the scientific method offered the possibility of analyzing the human psyche from a more positivist perspective, which, although it continued to focus on the introspective exercise, no longer sought to understand and/or define the soul, but rather the basic psychological processes among which the sociocultural dimension of the human being was ...