CDFS 408 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Human Behavior

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31 May 2018

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Human Ecology

Assumptions

Individuals are both biological and social in nature

Humans are dependent on their environment

Human beings are social

Human being are finite

Time is both a constraint and a resource

·Human interaction are spatially organized

·Human behavior can be understood on several levels

Concepts

Ecosystems

Ecological Levels

Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem

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Levels of Analysis

Individual-Psychological characteristics of parent or the child characteristics

Microsystems- the niches in the family

Mesosystem-relationship between individual mircosystems

Exosystem-Interrelationship between family and most immediate social networks

Macrosystem- Cultural norms and laws

5 Domains of Family Life

Inner life of both parents and child

Quality of the relationship b/w husband and wife

Quality of multi-generational relationships

Relationship b/w nuclear family members and key individuals or institutions outside the family

Quality of the relationship of each parent and their first child

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