Mental/emotional assets like skills and intelligence. Demand: Immediate stimuli like age, gender, or appearance. Context: The familiar nested systems: Microsystem: Immediate settings (family, school).
Finally, the encompasses the overarching cultural values, laws, and economic systems. A society that invests in paid parental leave, high-quality early childcare, and anti-poverty programs implicitly values the proximal processes that build human capital. Conversely, a macrosystem characterized by inequality or racial segregation disrupts these processes. Thus, to ask what makes humans human is also to ask what kind of society enables human flourishing. Bronfenbrenner famously stated that "in order to develop, a child needs the enduring, irrational involvement of one or more adults in caregiving and joint activity"—a condition that is as much a matter of social policy as of individual parenting. Mental/emotional assets like skills and intelligence
Bronfenbrenner’s mature theory is often summarized by the , which suggests that development is a function of four interacting components: Process (Proximal Processes) Thus, to ask what makes humans human is