Socialization and Child Development

Socialization and Child Development

Chapter 1

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

Define ecology and discuss how it relates to child development.

Define socialization and explain how it relates to child development.

Describe and illustrate how society's concept of childhood has changed from the Renaissance to the present day.

Define a theory and explain the uniqueness of the bioecological theory.

Describe how socialization occurs in a bioecological context.

Explain how the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem interact over time (the chronosystem).

Discuss contemporary ecology, naming societal trends affecting children.

Socialization

The process by which human beings acquire the knowledge, skills and character traits that enable them to participate as effective members of groups and society

The process begins at birth

It is dynamic (not static) and reciprocal

Socialization includes...

parenting or child rearing

social development

education

Socialization

A unique human process

language

A reciprocal dynamic process

Maturation Genes Temperament

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