Child, Family, & Society Soc. 312
The Bioecological Model of Human Development
Stacy Rose
May 02,2011
The bioecological model of human development has four basic systems. The four basic systems are macro systems, exosystems, microsystems, and mesosystems. I will summarize the four systems and how the influences that they have on a child’s development. I will describe how the four systems in the model differ from one other. I will provide examples of the four systems of their relationships and interactions to one another.
The fours systems are microsystems, mesosystems, exosystems, and macrosystems. Microsystems, which involves immediate environments like (family, school, peer group, neighborhoods, and childcare environments). Mesosystems, A system compromise of connections between immediate environments(examples a child’s home and school). Exosystem; External environmental settings which only indirectly affect development(such as parent’s workplace). Macrosystem: (the larger cultural context) national economy, political culture, and subculture. Examples of macrosystems are family planning services and affordability of contraceptives which can influence teen pregnancy and birth rates. Young women are taking to the planned parenthood in their area to get birth control pills to prevent teenage pregnancy. We have birth rates here in the valley the youngest we have had giving birth is an 11year old.
Examples of what is in the exosystems layer are extended family, family networks, mass media, workplaces, neighbors, family friends, community health systems, legal services, social welfare services. Though the child may not have dire contact with it, the systems affect the child's development and socialization - as do all the systems. Because the people in the child's life are affected by the exosystems and mesosystems
Mesosystems as parents interact with childcare providers, or as neighbors interact with each other. We as parents