Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change

by Edited by Lisa J. Crockett , Rainer K. Silbereisen

• ISBN13: 9780521623896
• ISBN10: 0521623898
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The decline of the socialist governments in Eastern and Central Europe and the resulting political and economic reorganizations of the 1990s provided a dramatic illustration of the far-reaching effects of social change. This important volume considers the processes through which societal changes exert an impact on the course of adolescent development and adolescents' social and psychological adjustment. Additionally, several chapters identify individual and contextual factors that can modify the impact of social change and enhance the likelihood of a successful transition to adulthood. Chapter authors include a diverse group of social scientists from Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Social Change and Adolescent Development: Issues and Challenges	1	(14)
Lisa J. Crockett
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Part I. Models of Social Change Effects	15	(54)
Surmounting Life's Disadvantage	17	(19)
Glen H. Elder, Jr.
Stephen T. Russell
Marriage and the Baby Carriage: Historical Change and Intergenerational Continuity in Early Parenthood	36	(22)
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Sara Schley
Janet Hardy
Effects of Social Change on Individual Development: The Role of Social and Personal Factors and the Timing of Events	58	(11)
Gisela Trommsdorff
Part II. Social Change and Adolescent Transitions	69	(66)
The Global Spread of Adolescent Culture	71	(18)
Alice Schlegel
Social Change and the Sequencing of Developmental Transitions	89	(15)
John Bynner
German Unification and Adolescents' Developmental Timetables: Continuities and Discontinuities	104	(19)
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Adolescents in Changing Social Structures: Bounded Agency in Life Course Perspective	123	(12)
Michael J. Shanahan
Kathryn E. Hood
Part III. Social Change and Adolescents' Social Contexts	135	(64)
Adolescent Peer Relations in Times of Social Change	137	(20)
Peter Noack
Life Course Dynamics and the Development of New Relations Between Generations	157	(21)
Hans Bertram
A Neighborhood-Level Perspective on Social Change and the Social Control of Adolescent Delinquency	178	(13)
Robert J. Sampson
Social Change and the ``Social Contract'' in Adolescent Development	191	(8)
Constance A. Flanagan
Part IV. Implications of Social Change for Adolescent Health and Well-Being	199	(66)
The Role of Economic Pressure in the Lives of Parents and Their Adolescents: The Family Stress Model	201	(23)
Katherine J. Conger
Martha A. Rueter
Rand D. Conger
``Spread Your Wings and Fly'': The Course of Well-Being and Substance Use During the Transition to Young Adulthood	224	(32)
John Schulenberg
Patrick M. O'Malley
Jerald G. Bachman
Lloyd D. Johnston
What Is a Cohort and Why? -- An Old Question Revisited	256	(9)
Klaus Boehnke
Part V. Interventions: Promoting Healthy Development in Times of Social Change	265	(34)
Research, Intervention, and Social Change: Improving Adolescents' Career Opportunities	267	(17)
Stephen F. Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton
Preparing Adolescents for Social Change: Designing Generic Social Interventions	284	(10)
Ruby Takanishi
Adolescents in the 21st Century: Preparing for an Uncertain Future	294	(5)
Anne C. Petersen
Endnotes	299	(4)
Index	303