PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
How Social Change Affects Individual Adaptation - Rainer K Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen
PART TWO: DYNAMIC OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES - Steffen Schmidt
A Challenge-Response-Model in Research on Social Change
Life Management in Developmental Settings of Modernity - Jochen Brandtstädter
Challenges to the Adaptive Self
Conceptualizing the Dynamics of Lives and Historical Times - Ross Macmillan and Arturo Baiocchi
Life-Course Phenomena, Institutional Dynamics and Socio-Historical Change
PART THREE: DETERMINANTS ON THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
Globalization, Institutional Filters and Changing Life-Course - Dirk Hofäcker et al
Patterns in Modern Societies
Demands of Social Change and Psychosocial Adjustment - Rainer K Silbereisen et al
Globalization, Social Inequality and Individual Agency in Human Development - Jutta Heckhausen
Social Change for Better or Worse?
PART FOUR: TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Institutional Responses to Social Change in Comparative Perspective - Reinhold Sackmann
Class, Stratification and Personality under Conditions of Apparent Social Stability and of Radical Social Change - Melvin L Kohn
Children's Socio-Emotional Functioning and Adjustment in the Changing Chinese Society - Xinyin Chen and Hiuchang Chen
Social Change and Premarital Sexual Behaviour and Attitudes in Vietnam - Rukmalie Jayakody et al
Social Change and Transition Experiences among Young Adults in Britain - Ingrid Schoon
Political Elites as an Agent of Social Change - Jacek Wasilewski
The Polish Perspective