Bioecological Approach Urie Bronfenbrenner Page 59 60 Urie

Bio-ecological Approach Urie Bronfenbrenner Page 59 -60

Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917 -2005) • Emphasizes environmental factors • Theory is that development reflects the influence of 5 environmental systems • He did add biological influences to his theory, however environmental contexts still predominate

• • Work from the inside out Different layers of environment Different levels of society that can affect you For the test you will not need to reproduce this, but you will need to know the vocabulary and how it differs

Microsystem • The setting in which the individual lives • This includes the person’s family, peers, school, and neighbourhood • It is the microsystem that the most direct interactions with social agents take place – with parents, peers, and teachers • Individual is viewed not as a passive recipient of experiences in these settings, but as someone who helps construct them

Mesosystem • Involves relations between microsystems or connections between contexts • Examples are the relation of family experiences to school experiences, school experiences to church experiences, and family experiences to peer experiences • EXAMPLE: Children whose parents have rejected them may have difficulty developing positive relations with teachers

Exosystem • Is involved when experiences in another social setting – in which the individual does not have an active role – influence what the individual experiences in an immediate context • Example: work experiences can affect a woman’s relationship with her husband their child. Wife may have promotion that means more travel, marital conflict, change parent-child interactions

Macrosystem • The culture in which individuals live • Behaviour patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a group of people that are passed on from generation to generation

Chronosystem • Patterning of environmental events and transitions over the life course, as well as socio-historical circumstances • Example: technological revolution differ depending on age, education, social-economic status, and geography • Babies born today where Internet access is available will never experience the Technological Revolution in the same way as their parents or grandparents • Every year technologies are redefining each of the systems, including personal space, behaviour, family life, education, health, community relaitonships, work life, legal boundaries and political systems

• The Sociocultural Approach - Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Approach • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=emm 63 kn 0 F 28 • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=5 ht. Rhvm 4 iy. I

Modern Family • We will be watching modern family – 2 times • Answer the handout • I will be collecting and marking this handout