Social Change and Human Development : Concept and Results

Today's world is characterized by a set of overarching trends that often come under the rubric of social change. In this innovative volume, Rainer K. Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen bring together, for the first time, international experts in the field to examine how changes in our social world impact on our individual development.Divided into four parts, the book explores the major socio-political and technological changes that have taken place around the world - from post- from the rapid upheavals in 1990s Europe to the gradual changes in parts of East Asia - and explains how these developments interplay with human development across the lifespan.Human Development and Social Change is a useful resource for students and researchers involved in all areas of human development, including developmental psychology, sociology and education.

Rainer K. Silbereisen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Developmental Psychology, Director of the Center for Applied Developmental Science [CADS] at the University of Jena in Germany, and President of the International Union of Psychological Science.
Xinyin Chen is Professor of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.