Chris Drew (PhD)

Bronfenbrenner’s mesosystem is defined as the relationships between influential actors in a child’s life. Examples of mesosystems include parent-teacher relationships, parent-church relationships, and sibling-parent relationships. A strong mesosystem (in other words, a strongly interconnected community of people surrounding a child) is believed by Bronfenbrenner to help a child’s holistic development. Mesosystem Definition & Explanation The […]

Macrosystem examples include the economic conditions of society, laws in society, taboos and customs of society, and cultural beliefs in the society in which a child lives. The macrosystem is one of five levels of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory. The other five levels include: Each level explains factors that influence a child’s development, going from

The chronosystem is the outermost level in Bronfenbrenner’s 5-tiered model of child development called the ecological systems model.  Each level in the model is represented by a circle, with the entire model taking the appearance of a series of 5 concentric circles moving outwards, with the child at its center. The radial distance of the