Psychological responses to social change

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This book explores human development amid social change, divided into four parts. The first section examines historical patterns and impacts of social change, including psychological constructions and American adolescents' evolving views on family and work from 1976 to 1992. The second part focuses on immigrant families with adolescent children, comparing the educational climate and intergenerational transmission in Turkish families in Germany with non-migrants, as well as adaptation patterns among parents and children in the U.S. and Canada. It also discusses how German adolescents adjust their autonomy in the context of immigration. The third section addresses the case of East-West unification, exploring how adolescents and their parents navigated social changes in Germany post-unification, including career and family orientations of East German women during this period and the social life of children in a previously divided city. The final part presents cross-cultural perspectives on growing up in diverse contexts, highlighting parent-adolescent relations in changing societies and comparing future orientations among adolescents from Australia, Finland, and Israel. The book concludes by discussing microsocial variations and the ways families and adolescents collectively respond to and shape social change.