Peter Noack & Manfred Hofer 
Psychological Responses to Social Change [PDF ebook] 
Human Development in Changing Environments

Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — Contributors — Introduction: Human Development under Conditions of Social Change — Part I. The Times are Changing – Patterns and Impact of Historical Development — Psychological Constructions of Social Change — Refraining concepts of development in the context of social change — American adolescents’ views on family and work: Historical trends from 1976-1992 — Part II. Changing Context – Immigrant Families with Adolescent Children — Educational Climate and Intergenerative Transmission in Turkish Families: A Comparison of Migrants in Germany and Non-Migrants — Adaptation patterns of parents and their children in the U.S. and Canada — German immigrants in Germany: Adaption of adolescents’ timetables for autonomy — Part III. Bringing Together an Entity – The Sample Case of East-West Unification — Adolescents and their Parents Facing Social Cange: Families in East and West Germany after Unification — Career and family orientations of East German women in times of change — Social life of children in a former bipartite city — Part IV. Growing Up in Different Contexts – Cross-cultural Perspectives — Parent-Adolescent Relations in Changing Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study — Searching for the future in different environments: A comparison of Australian, Finnish and Israeli adolescents’ future orientations, explorations and commitments — Conclusions — Microsocial variations, families, and adolescent development: Individual and collective ways of dealing with and shaping social change