Wim Meeus & Martijn de Goede 
Adolescence, Careers and Cultures [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — Contributors — Part I. Theoretical Perspectives — 1. Adolescent Development: A Global Perspective — 2. Social Psychology and the Study of Youth — 3. Toward a Psychosocial Analysis of Adolescent Identity; An Evaluation of the Epigenetic Theory (Erikson) and the Identity Status Model (Marcia) — 4. Socialization and Coping. A Theoretical Contribution to the Interdisciplinary Study of Youth — 5. Working-Class Heroes; A Review of the Youth Subculture Theory of the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies — Part II. Psychosocial Development — 6. Historical Change in Personal Networks, Identity Formation and Value Orientation in Dutch Adolescents Since World War II — 7. Secondary Control in an Individual-centered and in a Group-centered Culture — 8. Family Discord in Adolescence in the Light of Family Discord in Childhood: The Maternal Perspective — 9. Love Without Ties: A New Phase in the Sexual Life Course — 10. Changing Patterns of Sexual Behavior in 16-20 Year Olds in the UK: A Cohort-sequential Longitudinal Study — 11. First Sexual Experience in West Germany and Hungary: A Comparison with Survival Models — 12. Risk Analysis in Longitudinal Youth Research — 13. The Development of Career Expectations by American Youth — 14. The Development of Authoritarianism in Adolescence. Longitudinal Change in Authoritarianism and the Impact of Age, Gender and Educational Level — Part III. Career Trajectories and Citizenship — 15. Is the Importance of Family Decreasing? Evidence Regarding Dutch Sibling Data on Educational Attainment — 16. Regional and Subcultural Determinants of Adolescents’ Routes into Occupational Life. An English-German Comparison — 17. Transition to Employment and Citizenship: Findings on Early Careers and Identities from a UK Longitudinal Study — 18. Career Satisfaction and Career Success during the Transition from Youth to Adulthood. A Panel Study of Former German High-School Students between the Ages of 16 and 30 — 19. Changing Patterns? A Comparison of the Transition to Adulthood of Two Generations of Girls — 20. ‘Being Young’ in the Life Perceptions of Dutch, Moroccan, Turkish and Surinam Youngsters — 21. Poverty, Ethnicity and Youth Adjustment: A Comparison of Poor Hmong and Non-Hmong Adolescents — 22. Youth in the Shadow of War—War in the Light of Youth: Life-Stories of Israeli Veterans — 23. Modernization and Value Shifts: A Cross-cultural and Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents’ Basic Values