PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pecking Order, Chronic Poverty, Economic Inequality
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Provide means for children to acquire skills and resources they need to be economically productive later: socialization. Teach children basic values in their culture. Directly and indirectly teach children skills, rules, strategies. Manage children"s lives, including exposure to experiences and info, opportunities to play with certain toys and children. Family systems theory: several different ones, some basic elements: Whole unit greater than sum of parts. Change in any part affects all other parts. Resistant to change, even when rules/patterns/roles are maladaptive. Interactions help maintain system"s equilibrium (even if the balance isn"t adaptive) Have boundaries that vary on continuum from open to closed. Open: allow elements and situations from outside to influence it. Family unit can change from being open to closed, depending on the constant factors about the family. Use unwritten rules, messages to shape behaviour. Own rules, boundaries, characteristics: ecological theory extends system beyond family itself.
