Socioeconomic Status

Question 1. In my opinion socioeconomic status, cultural context, and ethnicity play a large role in human development. Socioeconomic status can affect education, healthcare, housing, nutrition, and habits among a host of other things. SES can bring about disadvantages and advantages, as well as create opportunities or limit the ability to succeed. In education a lower SES can mean the difference between going to a preschool program receiving a beneficial start to education and staying at home and being placed in front of a television program. A lower SES can make a difference in healthcare as well in being able to have access to thing such as pre natal vitamins, medications, and preventative medicine. SES and housing can effect development
It is what makes us what we are. Culture has a great doing in shaping our lives; it makes us do things that separate us from each other. Culture influences a human being from the moment they are born. The way we eat, the way we dress, the way we talk, the way we act is all got to do with our culture. Culture is a way of living, it can affect humans in a positive and negative way, for example, a positive way would be that when you are a guest at a house, people treat you with respect; a negative way is that it would be looked down on if you take advantage of something that they have or even look like you are. It effects our development and growth by teaching us what to do at certain times, which changes our personality completely and if we did not have culture, we would be completely different than what we are today, which could have its positive effects and its negative effects, if we didn't have culture, the positive effect would be that we would open up more, the negative effect is that we would be like wild animals. Your ethnicity on other hand is not the same as your culture. A culture can be made up of several different ethnic groups sharing the same attributes such as religion, language, national origin, and often share the same ancestors. For example, New York City is made up of numerous different ethnicities making up one culture. Without our ethnicity influences our development would not be
In my own development I can see characteristics such as Multidirectional, Multicultural, and Plasticity as it relates to my social, physical, and cognitive perspective. In my own life I can relate the multidirectional characteristic to my education. In grade school I was slow to develop cognitively. It was second grade when my teacher approached my mother about the possibility of placing me in a learning disability class. Luckily, my mother refused this offer and contributed my lack of cognitive behavior to laziness. I believe not placing me in this class not only affected me cognitively, but socially as well. By not having the stigma, or label, as having a learning disability allowed me to eventually to reach my full potential. I went on to take honors classes in high school and graduate with an advanced diploma, as well to go to college and earn two associate degrees. Socially I can relate to being multidirectional to my childhood. My brother and I are four years apart and never really had anything in common although I tried to compete in sports to be like him. I never had has many friends are got to enjoy some of the same things he did as a child, but as I progressed through life I became more outspoken and now I hardly ever meet a stranger. As with David I had gains and losses in every