In: Psychology
. A child grows up as part of a system comprising of many levels of involvement. They say it takes a village to raise a child. According to Bronfenbrenner, which system would include the child’s neighborhood friends? A) mesosytem B) chonosystem C) exosystem D) microsystem
The child's neighbourhood friends are his immediate peers and have a direct influence on his psychosocial development. Therefore they woul be included in Option (D) microsystem.
Urie Bronfenbrenner developed a theory of ecological systems to determine the environmental factors that influence the development of a child.
According to the theory, achild's external environment can bee seen as 5 interdependent systems each wider than the first.