Responding to students post.When responding to your peers, you may notice you had a different reaction to the music than they did. Explain how your reaction and/or feelings are different and what musical elements may have created those differences. How do different musical elements create different feelings? For the next post what levels of the ecological theory does their study seem to address? Share your general perspectives about the articles you have seen posted by other members in the course. How do both of your studies fit in? Emily post I would have to agree the the Greeks were correct in their belief in the doctrine of ethos. Music is something that one can make deep personal connections to and each song can have different effects on different people. There are certain songs that when they are played, they take you back to a place in time where you first heard that song. Music is able to transport you back in time to memories that you may have even forgotten about otherwise. Every time I hear A Teenager in Love by Dion and the Belmonts, I remember driving around with my dad in his truck just listening to the radio when I was a little girl. Music can also give you a mood boost or you can play certain music to fit your mood. For example, when I want to get into the Christmas spirit while I am baking and decorating for the holidays, I will put on my favorite Christmas playlist and the second I hear White Christmas I am transported back to my snowy Colorado and I am finally in the Christmas mood. Music also does more than effect us emotionally, it can make you want to move and dance. If a certain song comes on, say a song that was played at my wedding, I am going to instantly want to get up and dance! And while music will not mean the same thing to everyone and it will not have the same effect on every person, for me, music is an integral part of my life and has been since I was a little girl. Elizabeth post I believe entirely in the doctrine of ethos because music can really affect us to our core. Personally before meetings or work I used music with a lot of beat, because it gets my amped up and ready to do my job. In times when Im sad I find comfort in listening to slower beats which generally fall into love or sad songs for me. The aspect of dance as it relates to music I believe has the same effect, if there are specific dance steps with a song and then the song comes on you will see people flock to a dance floor. That is because they associate music with happy times and the chance to show off their moves. For me music has been an integral part of my life as Ive dealt with some really great times and bad times. Its interesting how our mood and soul can change just by hearing lyrics that we can totally relate to. Kristy post I found a journal article that discusses the connection between the microsystem and exosystem and violence in schools and student victimization. The study, titled , was published in 2012; however, the topic is still relevant six years later. The exosystem of Bronfenbrenners ecological systems theory is an environment in which an individual is not involved and is external to his/her experiences. According to the studys authors, the ecological systems model identifies individual characteristics, microsystems, and exosystems as influential on bullying and victimization (2013). Therefore, the microsystem includes the childs interaction with family and within social settings; the exosystem involves linkages and processes between two or more settings in this case study, home and school and the neighborhood of residence. The 2012 study revealed that residential instability, such as high resident turnover rates, increases school victimization. They also revealed a connection between parent/child aggression within the home (microsystem) and a high risk of school victimization. The individual characteristics considered by the study included race, class, gender, and age. Through the study results, the authors identified risk factors in the microsystems. These risk factors included child maltreatment within the home in which children learn negative interaction styles. Public schools are also sources of higher violence, theft, and bullying than private schools within the same geographical settings. The risk factors of the exosystem consisted of the community and neighborhood of both the childs personal residence and school location; poverty, socioeconomic status, and high turnover of residents were all identified as risk factors. I found this study to be incredibly relevant not just in terms of school violence but also the connection between the location of the schools and neighborhoods. Lower socioeconomic status and poverty results in more school violence. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule and bullying and violence definitely occurs in private schools and families with high economic status.
