Social Change and Human Development : Concept and Results

by Rainer K Silbereisen

• ISBN13: 9781849200196
• ISBN10: 184920019X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-26
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Rainer K. Silbereisen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Developmental Psychology, Director of the Center for Applied Developmental Science [CADS] at the University of Jena in Germany, and President of the International Union of Psychological Science.
Xinyin Chen is Professor of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Table of Contents

How Social Change Affects Individual Adaptation

A Challenge-Response-Model in Research on Social Change

Life Management in Developmental Settings of Modernity

Challenges to the Adaptive Self

Conceptualizing the Dynamics of Lives and Historical Times

Life Course Phenomena, Institutional Dynamics and Sociohistorical Change

Determinants on the Individual Level

Globalization, Institutional Filters and Changing Life Course

Patterns In Modern Societies

Demands of Social Change and Psychosocial Adjustment

Globalization, Social Inequality and Individual Agency in Human Development

Social Change for Better or Worse?

Transitions and Transformations in International Perspective

Institutional Responses to Social Change in Comparative Perspective

Class, Stratification and Personality under Conditions of Apparent Social Stability and of Radical Social Change

Children's Socioemotional Functioning and Adjustment in the Changing Chinese Society

Social Change and Premarital Sexual Behaviour and Attitudes in Vietnam

Social Change and Transition Experiences among Young Adults in Britain

Political Elites as an Agent of Social Change

The Polish Perspective

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