PS282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ecological Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Community Psychology
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Setting create predictable relationships among their members, these qualities persist over time regardless of the individuals involved. Routine patterns of social relations among the elements within a setting. Focus not on individuals but on relationships between individuals which affect distribution of resources, access to opportunities, and authority to address social issues. Offers a way of understanding why so often it seems the more things change in a setting, the more they remain the same. If settings change the actors but not the fundamental social regularities it will only promote first order change. Social regularities being altered results in second order change/the system itself being changed. Methods for investigating social regularities: naturalistic observation, case study, ethnographic approaches. Similar to ecological psychology but takes subjective experiences and cultural social meanings into account. Activity setting: not simply a physical setting and not just the behaviour of persons who meet there, also the subjective meanings that develop there among setting participants.
