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Ecology of the Community, “No man is wise enough by himself.” - Coggle…

- - - - The neighborhood, referring to people and places nearby, is the geographic setting in which children generally spend their unstructured time. The neighborhood is where children explore, interact with other children, observe adults engaged in work or other activities, and have various experiences themselves.
    - - Community interaction is an important factor in development because the developmental potential of a setting—in this case, the community—is enhanced as a function of the number of its supportive links with other settings the child might be in, such as the family or school.
        
        Social Diversity - The degree to which an environment contains a diversity of roles and experiences for children to learn from and for parents to draw upon affects families and children. a diverse setting contains a variety of businesspeople as well as a variety of ages and cultural groups
        
        Valued Types of Social Relationship - Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, considered to be a classic, defines two basic types of social relationships
        
        Size of Community - patterns of interaction vary considerably with the size of a community.
        
        Shared Norms. communities have norms that facilitate congenial social interactions. The norms of a small town are more homogeneous than those of a large city, and are also more widely understood and accepted.
        
        Gemeinschaft interpersonal relationships are communal, cooperative, close, intimate, and informal. There is mutual trust and concern, as well as willing cooperation. Gesellschaft relationships, on the other hand, are independent and contractual. Gesellschaft interpersonal relationships are associative, practical, objective, and formal. They are characterized by individualism and mutual distrust. typically, interactions are for a particular purpose
  - - - Play settings influence socialization by the types of activities that occur in them and by whether or not adults are present to supervise.
        
        The modern playground had various sculptures on which children could climb, crawl, and slide
        
        The adventure playground had old lumber, tires, crates, bricks, and rocks.
        
        The traditional playground setting had swings, a slide, a teeter-totter, and a sandbox.
    - - Community design refers to the way houses and streets are arranged. Design affects the social interactions among people living in a neighborhood as well as their physical activity.
    - - Noise is sound that is undesired or interferes with that to which one is listening
    - - Population density refers to the number of people occupying a certain area of space
      - Population composition refers to the stability or mobility of people in a neighborhood as well as to their homogeneity or heterogeneity.
      - Homogeneous neighborhoods include people of similar backgrounds; heterogeneous neighborhoods include people of differing background.
- - - - Advocacy for children is exemplified in the law (macrosystem influence) and in the community services provided to help families (mesosystem influence).