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•Environmental Systems:
– microsystem: setting where individual lives
– mesosystem: interrelations among microsystems comprising the local community
– exosystem: experiences in the larger social
– system or society of which the microsystem
– and mesosystem are parts
– macrosystem: the individual’s culture
– chronosystem: environmental events and
– transitions over time
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Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory
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Slide arranged by Dr. Gordon Vessels 2005
One PPT source retrieved at http://www.ualberta.ca/~liame/106b1/notes7.ppt#20 – no author identified.