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Review the Learning Resources and interactive media for this week….
Review the Learning Resources and interactive media for this week. Consider the foundational aspects of human development, as well as the common biological and environmental influences in a person’s life. Focus on the difference between inherited, age-grade, history-graded, and sociocultural-graded influences.
Think about the societal influences on your life or the life of someone you know who is approximately your same age. Then, think of another person within the same family who is at least two generations older, such as a grandparent. Now, take a moment to contrast the circumstances and societal influences of the younger person’s life with those of the older person you have selected.
Some prompts to help guide your comparison include the following:
Consider how the development of each identified person was influenced by social events, such as wars, epidemics, economic downturns, and racial equality movements.
Consider how the development of each identified person was influenced by culture/community, ethnicity/race, socioeconomic status, society/policy, and historical contexts/cohorts.
Also consider how the development of each identified person was influenced by inherited factors, as described in Chapters 1 and 3.
Think about which of these influences had the greatest impact on the lives you are considering.
Think carefully about the differences in cultural norms, as well as the daily life experiences of the times.
Consider how the societal and inherited influences were different and/or similar for the people you selected.
BY DAY 3
With these thoughts in mind, post an analysis of the development of the two people from different generations that you selected, in terms of what most profoundly influenced their development (and thus their lives) and in terms of what could and could not have been changed. Specifically, your response should include the following:
Begin with a brief description of the two people and their relationship to you.
Then, for each person, provide one example of the inherited factors and one example of the societal factors that had the most profound influence on each of their lives.
Next, compare and contrast how the societal and inherited influences impacted the two individuals you selected.
Finally, summarize the development of the people in the two generations in terms of the influences that they could and could not change, to improve the quality of their lives.
Important Notes:
Be sure to put in the first line of your post the societal factors of development that you referenced as having had the most profound influence. You will be asked to respond to a colleague who referenced at least one context that was different from yours.
Support your initial post with evidence from at least one Learning Resource.
