In today’s society people tend to be followers. People wear things or do things that they see others do, not knowing that everyone is born their own person. Things that make people unique and different from others is what makes them stand out. That leads me to introduce the topics to this paper. From nature-nurture, Bronfenbenner’s ecological system, and overall our culture is what makes us humans. Going through certain phases and transtions in life helps us to define ourselves over time. After reading this paper, it would give you a better understanding of my life and who I am as a person. The nature-nurture debate has always been a big controversy in the science world. Scientists, for many years try to figure out which of the two shaped …show more content…
To further more for a better understanding, I will explain the Bronfenbrenner 's Ecological systems model and how each level help in forming our human development. The ecological system model is a five different level model that contains people, places, and things that is believed to help a person 's develop in life. The first level is known as microsystem. The microsystem is the system that contains the closest and direct contact to a person, such as family, friends, school/work, and church. For example, my microsystem would consist of my home and work. At home, I tend to interact more with my parents and siblings. At work, I 'm more interactive with my boss, co-workers and the customers. Secondly, the next level of the ecological system is the mesosystem. The mesosystem consists of interaction between the different parts in the microsystem. For example, back in 8th grade I attended a catholic school. I had a nun as teacher and her name was Sister Anna. She was a very caring and loving teacher. I wasn 't a bad student, I just had bad habits. I tended to not do my homework while I was home, instead I rushed to do it in the morning before class. Sometimes I would finish in time and other times I would not. She would always ask why didn 't I do my homework at home and I would simply not know. So her and my parents sat down together to agree for me to stay with her after school to …show more content…
Two ways culture had affected me is through cognitive and physical development. For cognitive, looking back around my grandparent’s age, marriage was very strict and important. They would have to get married in order to have kids or sex and if you end up pregnant before being married you were forced to get married as soon as possible to avoid embarrassment towards your family. In today’s society people hook up, have one night stands, and have kids without even having any type of relationship and it wouldn’t affect them as much or have any consequences hold against them. You have more of a free-will in today’s society than back then as time goes on. For physical development, women were always looked as weak or not as strong as men. Women never worked or did heavy duties, they were taught to bear children and be housewives. In today’s society, women are as hardworking as men. You can now have two-working parents instead of one (which always tend to be the man). Women can now compete for jobs such as doctors or firefighter. Looking at the military position. Back then women weren’t drafted or able to join the army or air forces. In our culture today, women are working side by side next to men. The culture developed and expanded so much over
This case study involves a women in her early forties named, Imani. Lately she has been unhappy for several reasons. She does not feel the same joy she once had in her career, her relationship status (after being divorced for the past five years) is not where she wants it to be as she feels uncomfortable dating, and she feels that parenthood had come and gone without starting a family with the man (who she had divorced) she met in her senior year in college felt the time was never right to start a family. Lately, Imani feels that going back to school will fill that something in her life she feels she is missing, but is unsure what she would like to study. She has also been taking care of her aging mother
Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model suggests that there are three different types of environments in which we develop. These systems are the microsystem, exosystem, and Macrosystem. These systems are vital in our to influence our physical nature positively, or negatively.
The ecological systems theory, developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner, suggests the importance of social and cultural influences on child development. Bronfenbrenner introduced this theory as layering of environmental systems surrounding a child, and explained the influence that each layer may have on child development. Four layers of this system are microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem. The microsystem is the innermost layer and involves immediate relationships at home, school, and any other direct contact.
“The term “nature versus nurture” is used to refer to a long-running scientific debate. The source of debate is the question of which has a greater influence on development: someone's innate characteristics provided by genetics, or someone's environment. In fact, the nature versus nurture debate has been largely termed obsolete by many researchers, because both innate characteristics and environment play a huge role in development, and they often intersect”. (Smith, 2010 p. 1)
Ecological theory is a theory developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner that states that the “systems” around you are vitally important in human development. Within the theory there are many systems including the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. Each system is defined by a different aspect of a person’s surroundings that would affect their development. The systems begin with the aspect that is closest to you, your day-to-day life. The Microsystem includes all of the places, people, and experiences that are found in your daily life. These include school, work, parents. friends, neighbors, and so forth. The next most impactful system is the exosystem. The mesosystem is defined by two entities within your microsysytem affecting each other. The next system is called the exosystem. The exosystem is full of things that don’t affect you directly but will eventually
The Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory focuses on how ones environment can affect a person’s development. It focuses on 5 main areas namely the Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem and Chronosystem (Bronfenbrenner, 1977, p. 514-515). Each system represents the setting in which they live in and how these people affect their growth. In this particular case study, Andy’s main influence is from the Microsystem and Mesosystem.
Ecological perspective is concerned with “an adaptive, evolutionary view of human beings in constant interchange with all elements of their environment” (Germain & Gitterman,1976). The idea that the person and environment are inseparable and must be considered jointly is the theory’s primary assumption (Robbins et al., 2012, pg 33).
First I will discuss the structure and importance of the Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model. Urie Bronfenbrenner uses an ecological model to describe children’s development (Bojczyk, Shriner & Shriner, 2012). Within this model there are five
The debate on nurture versus nature goes much further back in history, to the times of philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato, respectively. One reason why individuals may not be aware of this is due to the different terminology used to describe
The nature-nurture debate is one of the oldest arguments in psychology, dating back to Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. While Socrates and Plato believed that knowledge is innate, Aristotle thought that knowledge is not preexisting and grows with experience. Even today, people ask whether nature (genetics/inherited characteristics) or nurture (environment and experiences) has a larger effect on one’s personality and behavior. Both nature and nurture have influenced everybody’s lives, including my own. Everything from the color of someone’s eyes to their temper can be explained by nature, nurture, or a combination of both. My genetics explain many of my traits and make me similar to my parents and the environments I have grown
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory is how a child’s development affected by their social relationship and the world around them. He believed that a person’s surrounding environment affects their development. There are five different levels of a person’s environment which includes: the microsystem, the mesosystem, the exosystem, the macrosystem, and the chronosystem. The microsystem involves a pattern of interpersonal relationships, activities and roles in particular settings. The mesosystem is the connections of two or more of the child’s microsystems. The exosystem is the connection between two or more setting. The macrosystem is how society has an impact on child’s values, policies, beliefs, customs, and culture. Lastly the chronosystem is the effect of time or the impact of historical context on the other interlocking systems (Bojczyk et al., 2012). It is important for parents to know about the system to know how the development of the child progresses. Parent’s expectations are high when it comes to their children. Upon entering the classroom, parents expect that their child should farther alone than what they actually are. In this paper, I will inform the parents
In connection to Bronfenbrenner Ecological System Theory the assistive technology usage, gives children with disabilities a developing environment. Urie talks about how the environment plays a major role in children development, in special education the environment must be accessible for children. The Ecological System Theory is the complex “layers” of environment, each having an effect on a child’s development (Bronfenbrenner, 1990). In regrades to the topic, the teacher should know how to appropriately assess children with disability while the child is in school environment. Children spend more time in school then home, so it is very important for the teacher to care, and nurture the child just as there parent would. In special education
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For years, many have argued nature versus nurture. After years of arguments and experimentation, it has become widely regarded
Nature vs. nurture has been discussed by philosophers in the past and by scientists more recently. Philosophers such as Plato argued that all knowledge was inherited from your parents and when you were told something you didn’t learn it you were just reminded of it. Aristotle however argued that all humans were born with a blank slate and built on it with influence from there environment. In the 1700’s the empiricists and the internalists took over the argument. They fought through letters explaining there point of views and denouncing the others. This leads to Pavlov coming up with the idea of behaviorism in the early 1900‘s. Behaviorism became the new wave of Psychology and influenced a lean towards the nurture side. It was not effectively argued against until 1928 when Watson published his book. This opened up the floodgates for environmental influences studies. Soon the idea of nurture was the popular excuse for behavior. Studies using animals were the most popular was in which scientists used to prove a theory, or disprove a theory. The newest studies use human twins to prove nature vs. nurture.