So far in this class, I think I received a consistent message that the environment (or the society as we have been discussing) is important in a human development.
Vygotsky- we talked about how the culture and the society influences the organization of thought.
Bandura- people develop self-efficacy through 1) by simply talking about it, 2) vicarious modeling, and 3) personal experience. Here the person needs someone to have discussion with, and the people to model from. Therefore, the environment matters here too.
Skinner- definitely the environment works. People are reinforced, and the reinforcements differ in every human being depending on what and how they experience in life.
I don't know about Freud and there after, but until now, I think the context (rather than environment, because environments seems to be too broad and distal) that the person is situated in matters a lot, and that many of the theories agree to it even though they did not articulate it in their theories.
My question is, is there any study that looked at context in those theoretical perspectives? I bet there are, but I kind of felt that when anyone talked about environmetnal influence, Bronfenbrenner was brought up, and the minute Bronfenbrenner is mentioned, people would say like "that theory can be used for ANYTHING". So as a person who thinks context really matters, I would like to see other theories emphasizing the context in other theoretical background other than Bronfenbrenner!
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