Psychological Responses to Social Change

ISBN-13: 9783110143430 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 262 str.

Peter Noack;Manfred Hofer;James E. Youniss

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Manfred Hofer ist seit 1982 Lehrstuhlinhaber für Erziehungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Pädagogische Psychologie an der Universität Mannheim.