Chapter one

Chapter one gave me a lot in insightful information about developmental psychology with multiple focuses contained within it. After reading Chapter one and our discussions I really sat back and thought about examples in society. One thing that I mentioned in my second discussion post really hit me hard. And it’s how subjective society can be. This is through modeling agencies as well as graduate programs. Apparently, weight can affect getting into programs which is duly noted however isn’t education a little too far? We correlate ourselves with the dynamic-systems theory which is; a view of human development as an ongoing, ever-changing interaction between the physical and emotional being, between the person and every aspect of his or her environment including family and society according to Berger in The Developing Person. However although we are constantly changing and correlate ourselves with this theory we have the same type of issues in our society. This is shown through the countless discrimination of body types, gender and sexuality.  So the question that arises in my mind is if we are based on the dynamic-systems theory and are constantly changing why are the same issues appearing in society just in different forms? Don’t you think that by now we would get the hang of things?