Social change and human development : concept and results

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Social change and human development : concept and results

edited by Rainer K. Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen

SAGE, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION How Social Change Affects Individual Adaptation - Rainer K Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen PART TWO: DYNAMIC OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES - Steffen Schmidt A Challenge-Response-Model in Research on Social Change Life Management in Developmental Settings of Modernity - Jochen Brandtstadter Challenges to the Adaptive Self Conceptualizing the Dynamics of Lives and Historical Times - Ross Macmillan and Arturo Baiocchi Life-Course Phenomena, Institutional Dynamics and Socio-Historical Change PART THREE: DETERMINANTS ON THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL Globalization, Institutional Filters and Changing Life-Course - Dirk Hofacker et al Patterns in Modern Societies Demands of Social Change and Psychosocial Adjustment - Rainer K Silbereisen et al Globalization, Social Inequality and Individual Agency in Human Development - Jutta Heckhausen Social Change for Better or Worse? PART FOUR: TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Institutional Responses to Social Change in Comparative Perspective - Reinhold Sackmann Class, Stratification and Personality under Conditions of Apparent Social Stability and of Radical Social Change - Melvin L Kohn Children's Socio-Emotional Functioning and Adjustment in the Changing Chinese Society - Xinyin Chen and Hiuchang Chen Social Change and Premarital Sexual Behaviour and Attitudes in Vietnam - Rukmalie Jayakody et al Social Change and Transition Experiences among Young Adults in Britain - Ingrid Schoon Political Elites as an Agent of Social Change - Jacek Wasilewski The Polish Perspective

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  • NCID
    BB03138617
  • ISBN
    • 9781849200196
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 292 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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