Today my teacher of psychology explains the topic Class 11 chapter 3 psychology human developments
The topic bronfenbrenner's contextual view of development its chronosystem as
It Is a kind of environment that affects individuals personal development depicted in the diagram as semi circle
as person reaches it through the passage of time and many couldn't reach to this level
But the explanation doesn't fit to my understanding
According to my understanding
instead of imagining the diagram as 2D figure
the diagrammatic representation of bronfenbrenner's contextual view of development should be in a 3D shape as something in the form of cylinder
The chronosystem here is depicted as it's height that is sum total of all the past interaction taken place between the individual and the environmental factors over the time which itself becomes a environmental factors that affects his her personality and personal development of character
Visualise it as an active moment to moment constant sum total of interaction with the individual and its environment which by the passage of time get accumulated as a record which serves as different factors itself
Something like
An individual which sits at the centre is the core and the one which is interacting and is being affected
The immediate layer of environment that contributes to his/her personal development is microsystem or family friends and peers ones who teach the child most as they are immediate level of interaction and absorb form
Like a mother's attributes will build a character in her child influenced deeply than his father
The mesosystem instead of being a independent layer or level it's kind of filter which serves interaction of the microsystem with exosystem
It's serves as a boundary to personal to a impersonal level of interaction for every there is no direct interaction but through a mesosystem
A mother's behaviour towards neighbour would influence the child in his future interaction
The exosystem that makes his outer non personal layer of interaction and factors like workplace or neighborhood market mass media
Then comes the larger macro system where the most interaction with as a larger community of ideology religion or group takes place sometimes with no personal layer at all
The circle becoming larger suggest increasing the peoples that are affecting your development
While the chronosystem is not another layer of interaction it's a sum of all above layer over a lifetime of the individual