Bronfenbrenner's Five Systems

 

Bronfenbrenner's Five Ecological Systems

All five systems are centred around the individual. Individual characteristics include gender, age, ethnicity, and health.

1. Micro-system:Is the system with which the individual has direct association. The system interacts with the individual and the individual interacts with the system. The system is built through their contributions. Friends, School, Family, and Neighbour Hood are a few examples of the micro-system. Student is not doing well in school.
2. Meso-system: Is the system that connects other systems. Micro-system to Micro-system, and Micro-system to Exo-system. This is the connection that allows one system to directly effect another. Family issues also effect performance at school, is micro-system to micro-system.
3. Exo-system: In this system the individual is effected my the system indirectly and does not have an active role in molding system. If the parent loses their job, it causes stress at home and can then effect the individual, but the individual cannot actively control the job situation of the parent.
4. Macro-system: This is the attitudes and Ideologies of the culture the individual lives in. The Individual does not have the power to change the views of the people. Attitudes and ideas based on race, gender, social standings, is an example. If the student is not doing well in school because of family issues, because the parent has lost their job because of new found prejudices in the society is how the Macro-system effects the individual.
5. Chrono-system: The change in society over amounts of time. Views in society at any given point, what are the major events in the individuals life.

This is an example of how all the five systems effect one another and in turn the individual. At this point in time women in the work force are not being treated fairly because of the place in time, women are new to the work force. Men of power in society feel it is better that women do not work, but take care of their families. The mother is layed off, effecting the family because they do not have enough money and are forced to move, the move takes alot of hard work and the student falls behind in school. And in turn the student does not do well.