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How do an individual’s experiences in Bronfenbrenner’s macrosystem impact their views on or practices surrounding death? The ecological systems theory by Urie Bronfenbrenner includes microsystem, macrosystem, exosystem, and chronosystem. His framework was named based on the model of development, where he stood by the idea of life's transactions of the environment and its people (Sigelman and Rider, 2017, pg50). Microsystem is the tiniest and most current environment lived in, such as school or community. Mesosystem is relationships between Microsystems. Exosystem is relationships in more than two settings like a bully being abused at home who may take it out on another student, and chronosystem leads by the transitions in a person's lifetime. Macrosystem is the most extensive system where all distant people or people affect children, like their beliefs and values. (SNHU COCE Assistive Technology 2020). An individual's experience of the macrosystem impacts an individual's view on practices surrounding death due to the environment they grew up in, the culture, and the values and beliefs instilled in childhood development. The article presented its study on four different cultures to show the indirect effect of reminiscence functions to inform children of death and life. Reminiscence functions in old age are passed on to teach/inform and provide death preparation to prepare for death. This study identified the indirect effects (Hofer, et al, 2020). Choose two cultures to compare (not necessarily from the article) and describe their views on death. How do they differ? How are they similar? The African culture views death as a celebration of life that goes beyond the persons passing. Africa is similar to America because of its diversity and varying traditions. America has many different cultures, and so does Africa. The Ga-Adangbe people of Africa, The Ga-Adangbe people, have a culture where the tradition is very elaborate coffins meant to represent the deceased interest in their life. In America, caskets aren't known to be flashy or personalized, yet simple for the most part. So despite the similarities between both America and Africa, there are substantial differences (Golden, 2018).

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How does Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model apply to any of the following programmatic themes? You may want to review the Programmatic Themes document. Self-care Social justice Emotional intelligence Career connections Ethics Bronfenbrenner's ecological model applies to the programmatic theme of ethics; this is the theme that involves values. One must understand the importance of life, death, and the value of those who have passed. The value of a lifetime comes from ethics learned from people and in our environments during childhood development. The stages of child development in Bronfenbrenner's ecological model involve child development, and that is when our guardians teach us the values of life.

Resources Golden, L. (2018, July 17). How cultures around the world handle death. Owlcation – Education. https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Death-Across-the-World Jan Hofer, Holger Busch, Alma Au, Iva Poláčková Šolcová, Peter Tavel & Teresa Tsien Wong (2020) Reminiscing to teach others and prepare for death is associated with meaning in life through generative behavior in elderlies from four cultures, Aging & Mental Health, 24:5, 811-819, DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2018.1548568 Sigelman C. K., & Rider E. A. (2017). Life-Span Human Development . [MBS Direct]. https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781337516068/ SNHU COCE Assistive Technology (2020, August 5). PSY-211 Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory (CC) [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oJxzcPrmAc

response 1 Your post was inspiring, I found it to be very well done and hope to make eloquent posts like this. Culture definitely does play roles in the understanding of life and death. I never knew before this week's discussion that there are different types of cremations in different cultures, it's really fascinating. I see why anthropology is such an amazing area of study. Reeponse 2 After reading your post I think you might like this article I read about the traditions of the different cultures regarding death. It's a very good read with such interesting facts that coincide with Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory. If you read this article it has even more cool facts about the cultural differences in the approach to death. https://owlcation.com/socialsciences/Death-Across-the-World...