Sociocultural Risk and Opportunity Garbarino Chapter 3

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Sociocultural Risk and OpportunityGarbarino
Chapter 3

• Dr. Carolyn S. Wilken

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Sociocultural Risk

• Depriving child of social, physical and
  psychological necessities
• Food
• Affection
• Caring
• Teachers
• Good medical care
• Values consistent with intellectual progress

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Microsystem

• Pattern experienced by the developing person
• The person influences and is influenced by the
  microsystem
• Gateway to the world
• Child who understands and can deal with ever
  wider reality with self-respect and
  self-confidence

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Impoverished Microsystems

• Small vs. Large
• Imbalanced vs. Balanced
• Authoritarian
• Permissive
• Authoritative
• Negative vs. Positive

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Risk Opportunity in the Mesosystem

• Mesosystems
• Relationships between two or more settings where
  the child is an active participant
• Success based on the number and quality of the
  relationships

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Ecological Transition

• How this is done
• Who is involved
• How well prepared the child is for the new
  setting

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• The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• Connections
• More positive
• Stronger
• More diverse

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Risk Opportunity in the Exosystem

• Setting where child does not participate directly
  but has an effect on the child
• Neighborhood, ecological niche of families

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Risk and Opportunity in the Macrosystem

• Cultural blueprints that underlie the
  organization of institutions, the assumptions
  people make about social relations, and the
  workings of the political and economic systems

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• Cultural Relativism
• Social Engineering