CAYABYAB, KRISSELLE MAE C.

BS Physics

February 7, 2019

READING ASSIGNMENT 1

Guide Questions

Ecology of Human Development and Self

1. What are the contexts to consider in a better understanding of self and society?
The contexts to consider in a better understanding of self and society are the
sociological context within which the modern assumptions regarding self and identity
emerged; focus on the immediate situations, to examine contemporary shifts in culture or
social structure.

2. A diagram to depict the important ideas when looking at human development – self – from
an ecological perspective.

Human Development

Ecological Culture/SubCulture Ecological Theory of

environment Diff. Settings transitions Interconnectedness

Immediate dyad Person’s position microsystem

setting in ecological
N+2 environment is mesosystem
Interconnections systems altered as result
of single settings of change in role exosystem

macrosystem
Events occurring
in setting in w/c
the person is not
even present

3. Some process s in self and society.

The following are some processes in self and society.
 Language process: essential for the development of the self
 Process of Social Experience and Activity: complete self develops and amount of
self that gets into communication is determined.
 Process of Social Conduct and Activity: solution to the essential psychological
problem of selfhood or of self-consciousness.
 Social process: one thinks to act and act solely, responsible for the appearance of
the self in different contexts, and where community exercises control over the
conduct of its individual members.
 Process of conversation of gesture/communication: talking to one’s self as one
would talk to another person.
 Process of abstraction: one inevitably seeks an audience.
 Thinking process: completion of conversation of gesture which implies the
expression of that which one thinks to an audience.
 Complex Cooperative Process: where an individual belonging to that society can
take the general attitudes of all other such individuals with reference to these
processes and activities and institutional functionings, and to the organized social
whole of experiental relations and interactions thereby constituted – and can direct
his own behavior accordingly.