¶ … Components of Socialization
Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory consists of five components of socialization. They are the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem. This creative effort attempts to demonstrate each of these components and there effects on an individual in the context of a divorce from the perspective of a child.
Divorce and Collateral Damage
Penny curled up in a ball under the blankets as the angry voices of her parents slipped under the door to her bedroom and attacked her pretty pink ears.
"You're drunk!"
"You're a whore!"
She closed her eyes and covered her ears. The war had been building for as long as the nine-year-old could remember. She suddenly jumped from her bed and ran sobbing into the living room of their middle class suburban home. "Stop!" she sobbed. "Just stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!"
"Screw it," said her father and he walked out the door for the last time.
Divorce was not common among her peers in 1959. Most of Penny's friends were still living with both parents. Her parents had filed the papers and her world was turned upside down. At school she felt her friends began to "look at her funny" and shy away from her. Her upper middle class classmates had little experience with divorce;...
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