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Article: Adolescent Development and Rapid Social Change: Perspectives from Eastern Europe.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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VAN HOORN, Judith L., KOMLOSI Akos, SUCHAR, Elzbieta, & SAMELSON, Doreen A. Adolescent Development and Rapid Social Change: Perspectives from Eastern Europe. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. 309pp. $21.95 (p).
In times of dramatic social changes, adolescents are the last children of the old system and the first adults of the new. The Hungarian and Polish adolescents documented in this book can be considered the omega-alpha generation of the great social, political, and economic changes that occurred during the late 1980s and early 1990s in central and eastern Europe. ...