FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ecological Systems Theory, Macrohistory, Family Values
3 Apr 2017
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Why do we need theory: help us predict relationships, help us explain relationships, different theories explain relationships differently, strong research has strong theoretical underpinnings. Theoretical assumptions: motivational theories, your choose/determine why and how you do something, normative theories, social norms predict behaviour and action, formal vs. From video: persons development was affected by everything in a persons environment, from 5 year old pov, microsystem: system closest to person and where they have direct contact (home, school, work) includes family, peers. Relationships are bi-directional; (how you treat them is how they treat you: meosystem: interactions between different parts of a persons microsystem. Timing of an event during a persons development (death of parent would affect 3 year old different than teenager) Valuable because it stresses the interaction between families and their political and social environments. Dif cult to observe how environments exert changes upon family. Dif cult to research changes on a more macro level.
