Social change and human development : concept and results / edited by Rainer K. Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: How social change affects individual adaptation / Rainer K. Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen. pt. 1. Dynamic of social change and invididual responses. A challenge-response-model in research on social change / Steffen Schmidt -- Life management in developmental settings of modernity: challenges to the adaptive self / Jochen Brandstädter -- Conceptualizing the dynamics of lives and historical times: life course phenomena, institutional dynamics and sociohistorical change / Ross Macmillan and Arturo Baiocchi. pt. 2. Determinants on the individual level. Globalization, institutional filters and changing life course; patterns in modern societies: a summary of the results from the GLOBALIFE-Project / Dirk Hofäcker, Sandra Buchholz, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld -- Demands of social change and psychosocial adjustment: results from the Jena study / Rainer K. Silvereisen, Martin Pinquart, and Martin J. Tomasik -- Globalization, social inequity, and individual agency in human development: social change for better or worse? / Jutta Heckhausen. pt. 3. Transitions and transformations in international perspective. Institutional responses to social change in comparative perspective: Germany and Poland / Reinhold Sackmann -- Class, stratification, and personality under conditions of apparent social stability and of radical social change: a multi-nation comparison / Melvin L. Kohn -- Children's socioemotional functioning and adjustment in the changing Chinese society / Xinyin Chen and Hiuchang Chen -- Social change and premarital sexual behavior and attitudes in Vietnem / Rukmalie Jayakody, Jessica Heckert, and Dang Nguyen Anh -- Social change and transition experiences among young adults in Britain / Ingrid Schoon -- Political elites as an agent of social change: the Polish perspective / Jacek Wasilewski.