The Social Ecological Model

Question 1

Ecological context

Answer 1

Setting that influences on individual such as physical social economical and political environment

Question 2

Adaptation

Answer 2

Refers to the process by which people cope with change in resources in their environment

Question 3

Succession

Answer 3

Environment are not static and change continuously, refers to orderly processes of community change as the way of adapting to new situations

Question 4

Interdependence

Answer 4

Model holds that the multiple components of the social context are interrelated and influences parts

Question 5

Micro system

Answer 5

Smallest social unit that individual interacts directly in and on a regular basis

Question 6

Meso system

Answer 6

Set of linkages between micro system or setting in which individual is located
Development would be enhanced if different settings have direct contact/influence

Question 7

Exo system

Answer 7

System that influences person but with whom he/she doesn’t have direct contact/influence

Question 8

Macro system

Answer 8

Broader system that impacts individual ( government policies and decisions, ideologies and belief systems) - attitudes and values of people

Question 9

How does Brocher define communities

Answer 9

Complex human systems that depend on collective and cooperative efforts to achieve objectives.They are formal organization, the patterns of organization of communities people form to meet their needs have an infinite variety

Question 10

What is building capacity

Answer 10

By developing resources in community helping community develop new resources, change may be sustainable as an institutionalized part of society