COVER; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: HOW SOCIAL CHANGE AFFECTS INDIVIDUAL ADAPTATION; Part I --;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 --;DETERMINANTS ON THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL. 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 --;TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE; 7 INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO SOCIAL CHANGE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: GERMANY AND POLAND; 8 CLASS, ST.
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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.