Abstract

Ideology and social psychology, the field of historical materialism on the social consciousness of the two areas, the former is an advanced form of social consciousness, which is the primary form of social consciousness, which is the primary form of ideology formed the basic premise. The paper distinguishes between social psychology that the boundaries of social psychology in general, and from social psychology that focuses on the development of a brief history, to explore the discipline for the study of historical materialism and the importance of social consciousness. Ideological system and social psychology constitute two categories of social consciousness in the field of historical materialism. The former is the advanced form of the social consciousness, the latter being the primary form which offers a prerequisite for the ideological system. This paper supplys a distinguish of the science of social psychology and social psychology in the general sense, and reveals the significance of this discipline for the research on historical materialism and social consciousness, mainly by studying the brief history of the science of social psychology