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Social Change and Human Development
Concept and Results
Edited by:
- Rainer K Silbereisen - University of Jena, Germany
- Xinyin Chen - University of Western Ontario, Canada
Other Titles in:
Developmental Psychology (General)
Developmental Psychology (General)
April 2010 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Today's world is characterized by a set of overarching trends that often come under the rubric of social change. In this innovative volume, Rainer K. Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen bring together, for the first time, international experts in the field to examine how changes in our social world impact on our individual development.
Divided into four parts, the book explores the major socio-political and technological changes that have taken place around the world - from post- from the rapid upheavals in 1990s Europe to the gradual changes in parts of East Asia - and explains how these developments interplay with human development across the lifespan.
Human Development and Social Change is a useful resource for students and researchers involved in all areas of human development, including developmental psychology, sociology and education.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Rainer K Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen
How Social Change Affects Individual Adaptation
Steffen Schmidt
PART TWO: DYNAMIC OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES
A Challenge-Response-Model in Research on Social Change
Jochen Brandtstädter
Life Management in Developmental Settings of Modernity
Ross Macmillan and Arturo Baiocchi
Conceptualizing the Dynamics of Lives and Historical Times
PART THREE: DETERMINANTS ON THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
Dirk Hofäcker et al
Globalization, Institutional Filters and Changing Life-Course
Rainer K Silbereisen et al
Demands of Social Change and Psychosocial Adjustment
Jutta Heckhausen
Globalization, Social Inequality and Individual Agency in Human Development
PART FOUR: TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Reinhold Sackmann
Institutional Responses to Social Change in Comparative Perspective
Melvin L Kohn
Class, Stratification and Personality under Conditions of Apparent Social Stability and of Radical Social Change
Xinyin Chen and Hiuchang Chen
Children's Socio-Emotional Functioning and Adjustment in the Changing Chinese Society
Rukmalie Jayakody et al
Social Change and Premarital Sexual Behaviour and Attitudes in Vietnam
Ingrid Schoon
Social Change and Transition Experiences among Young Adults in Britain
Jacek Wasilewski
Political Elites as an Agent of Social Change
