Social Change and Human Development
Subtitle: Concept and Results
Contributors: Chen, Xinyin
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780857029362
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Social Science; Psychological aspects; Social psychology; Developmental psychology; Social change
Description: 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: COVER; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: HOW SOCIAL CHANGE AFFECTS INDIVIDUAL ADAPTATION; Part I; title: DYNAMIC OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES; 1 A CHALLENGE- RESPONSE-MODEL IN RESEARCH ON SOCIAL CHANGE; 2 LIFE MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPMENTAL SETTINGS OF MODERNITY: CHALLENGES TO THE ADAPTIVE SELF; 3 CONCEPTUALIZING THE DYNAMICS OF LIVES AND HISTORICAL TIMES: LIFE COURSE PHENOMENA, INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS AND SOCIOHISTORICAL CHANGE; Part II; title: DETERMINANTS ON THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL.; title: 4 GLOBALIZATION, INSTITUTIONAL FILTERS AND CHANGING LIFE COURSE. PATTERNS IN MODERN SOCIETIES: A SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS FROM THE GLOBALIFE-PROJECT5 DEMANDS OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT: RESULTS FROM THE JENA STUDY; 6 GLOBALIZATION, SOCIAL INEQUALITY, AND INDIVIDUAL AGENCY IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: SOCIAL CHANGE FOR BETTER OR WORSE?; Part III; title: TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE; 7 INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO SOCIAL CHANGE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: GERMANY AND POLAND; 8 CLASS, ST.