PS282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Environmental Psychology, Environmental Design, Benefit Society
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4 ecological principles (kelly"s principles) (examine social environments and their physical settings) Provide distinctive, useful concepts for describing the dynamics of social environments. Interdependence: social systems have multiple related parts and multiple relationships with other systems. Changes in one of the parts can affect others, they are interdependent. Public school, interdependent components include: students, teachers, administrators, secretaries, janitors and other staff, parents, board members etc. By examining the availability and use of resources, one can begin to characterize family priorities and connections. Succession: settings and social systems change over time, investigate what has been successful and what has not. Understanding environments emphasizes how people experience and understand settings. Co worker cohesion and supervisor support can be measured in work settings. Settings typically create predictable relationships among their members and those qualities persist over time regardless of the individuals involved. Edward seidman: proposed that settings be understood in terms of these social regularities.
