This 2000 volume considers processes through which societal changes exert an impact on the course of adolescent development.

1. Social change and adolescent development: issues and challenges Lisa J. Crockett and Rainer K. Silbereisen; Part I. Models of Social Changes Effects: 2. Surmounting life's disadvantage Glen H. Elder and Stephen T. Russell; 3. Marriage and the baby carriage: historical change and intergenerational continuity in early parenthood Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Sara Schley, and Janet Hardy; 4. Effects of social change on individual development: the role of social and personal factors, and the timing of events Gisela Trommsdorff; Part II. Social Change and the Adolescent Traditions: 5. The global spread of adolescent culture Alice Schlegel; 6. Social change and the sequencing of developmental transitions John Bynner; 7. Early adversities and the timing of psychosocial development in adolescence: a comparison of the former Germanys Rainer K. Silbereisen; 8. Adolescents in changing social structures Michael J. Shanahan and Kathryn E. Hood; Part III. Social Change and Adolescents' Social Contexts: 9. Peer relations in times of social changes Peter Noack; 10. Life course dynamics and the development of new relations between generations Hans Bertram; 11. A neighborhood-level perspective on social change and the social control of adolescent delinquency Robert Sampson; 12. Social change and the 'social contract' in adolescent development Constance A. Flanagan; Part IV. Implications of Social Change for Adolescent Health and Well-Being: 13. The role of economic pressure in the lives of parents and their adolescents: the family stress model Katherine Jewsbury Conger, Martha A. Rueter and Rand D. Conger; 14. Spread your wings and fly: the course of health and well-being during the transition to adulthood John Schulenberg, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman, and LLoyd D. Johnston; 15. Social change and the individual: what is a cohort and why? Klaus Boehnke; Part V. Interventions: Promoting Healthy Development in Times of Social Change: 16. Research, intervention, and social change: improving adolescents' career opportunities Stephen F. Hamilton and Mary Agnes Hamilton; 17. Preparing adolescents for social change: designing generic social interventions Ruby Takanishi; 18. Adolescents in the twentieth century: preparing for an uncertain future Anne C. Petersen.