This article discusses the importance of context in Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model and its effects on individual development. It explores the macrosystem, including politics and culture, and their impact on an individual's cognitive and physiological development.
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1CONTEXT IN THE PPCT MODEL Introduction While the components of ‘person’, ‘process’ and ‘time’ hold equally powerful implications upon an individual’s development, the concept of ‘context’ has been emphasised with greater detail in Bronfenbrenner’s PPCT model (Tudgeet al.2016). Discussion The macrosystem consists of an individual’s culture, economy or political scenario in which he or she belongs to, but is otherwise passive or lack control over the proceedings of the same (Ashiabi and O’Neal 2015). This means that, an individual may not have a hand in implementing governmental decisions on implementing the Affordable Healthcare Act or its repeal, but will definitely be financially influenced by it and may encounter physiological and cognitive hindrances or benefits to cognitive development, further affecting future life stage development (Eriksson, Ghazinourand Hammarström 2018).Macrosystem also consists of the complexities prevalent in an individual’s culture. So while an indigenous child may not be involved in the formulation of traditional cultural values, being exposed to cultural beliefs and historical notions on belonging to a community oppressed by mainstream society may negatively hinder development and result in feelings of fear, mistrust and distress in the child when attempting to adjust to non-indigenous settings (Perron 2017). Hence, the role of context or the macrosystem is evident in the above scenarios of politics and culture, against which an individual has no influential power and merely plays a passive subjects to these contextual effects (Payiret al.2017).
2CONTEXT IN THE PPCT MODEL Conclusion Hence, it can be concluded that despite being a passive, powerless member of the macrosystem, contexts of politics and culture, prevalent in the same, exert significant impacts upon an individual’s development. Total Word Count: 259
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