PSC140Y-VL2

📗 -> 10/04/25: PSC140Y-VL2

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Urie Bronfenbrenner - Russian born American psychologist (1917-2005)

• Best known for ecological systems theory
  • Emphasizes use of a contextual framework to understand human development
• Involved in developing the US head start program for helping children living in poverty get ahead

Ecological Systems Theory

Nested sets of environments:

• Psychological, cultural, economic, and political processes and elements influencing development
• Child at center of many influences
  Microsystem - Environment children face every day. Home life, school, neighborhood, religion…
• Innermost system
  Mesosystem - Connections between the microsystems
• Parents involvement in schools.
  Exosystems - Settings and institutions where children are not necessarily present, but have impacts on development
• Local government, local industries, …
• Parent workplace - Stress and time constraints might affect parenting, and conversely childcare policies might affect positively
  Macrosystem - Societal and cultural elements, such as dominant values, beliefs, and ideologies
• Global warming is an example of a macrosystem, varying cultural approaches to this have influences on policy etc.
  Chronosystem - Specific events and changes in culture over time
• IE social media introduction is a change to the chronosystem

what have you learned from this video?

I learned Bronfenbrenner's theory about how environmental systems affect childrens development. Specifically, the different roles that a child's microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem can have on them. A child is at the center of all of these systems, and even higher level influences like their macrosystem can have profound influences on them.

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