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    Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005)

    Presents an obituary for Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005). Before Urie Bronfenbrenner, child psychologists studied the child, sociologists the family, anthropologists the society, economists the economic framework, and political scientists the structure. As the result of Urie's extension of the concept of the ecology of human development, these environments--from the family to economic and political structures--are viewed as part of the life course, embracing both childhood and adulthood. Bronfenbrenner, widely regarded as one of the world's leading scholars in developmental psychology, child rearing, and human ecology--the interdisciplinary domain he helped popularize--died at his home in Ithaca, New York, on September 25, 2005, at the age of 88. He was the Jacob Gould Sherman Professor Emeritus of Human Development and of Psychology at Cornell University, where he spent most of his professional career. A brief biography of Bronfenbrenner is follo

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    Urie Bronfenbrenner (April 29, 1917 – September 25, 2005) was a renowned Russian-born Americanpsychologist, known for his work in child development. Bronfenbrenner was one of the first psychologists to adopt a holistic perspective on human development, developing his Ecological Systems Theory which had a widespread influence on the way psychologists and other social scientists approach the study of human beings and their environments.

    Bronfenbrenner emphasized the importance of the social environments in which children are raised, and saw the breakdown of the family as leading to the ever growing rates of alienation, apathy, rebellion, delinquency, and violence among American youth. His work led to new directions in research and in the design of programs and policies affecting the well-being of children and families.

    Life

    Urie Bronfenbrenner was born on April 29, 1917 in Moscow, Russia, as the son of Dr. Alexander Bronfenbrenner and Eugenie Kamenetski Bronfenbrenner. When U

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    Urie Bronfenbrenner

    American psychologist

    Urie Bronfenbrenner (April 29, 1917, Moscow[1] – September 25, 2005) was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for using a contextual framework to better understand human development.[2] This ramverk, broadly referred to as 'ecological systems theory', was formalized in an article published in American Psychologist,[3] articulated in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of Human Development[4] and further developed in The Bioecological Model of Human Development [5] and later writings. He argued that natural experiments and applied developmental interventions provide valuable scientific opportunities.[3] These beliefs were exemplified in his involvement in developing the US Head början program in 1965.[6] Bronfenbrenner's writings about the limitations of understanding child development solely from experimental labo