Rodin, Judith; Schooler, Carmi; Schaie, K. Warner

• Contents: M.W. Riley, Foreword: The Life Course and the Crisis in Social Science. J. Rodin, Control by Any Other Name: Definitions, Concepts, and Processes. C.Schooler, Individualism and the Historical and Social- Structural Determinants of People's Concern Over Self-Directedness and Efficacy. J.W. Meyer, Individualisms: Social Experience and Cultural Formulation. D.R. Heise, Careers, Career Trajectories and the Self. R.P. Abeles, Schemas, Sense of Control and Aging. A. Foner, Social Constraints on Self-Directedness Over the Life Course. J. R. Weisz, Development of Control-Related Beliefs, Goals, and Styles in Childhood and Adolescence: A Clinical Perspective. M. Rosenberg, Control of Environment and Control of Self. C.A. Berg, What is Intellectual Efficacy Over the Life Course?: Using Adults' Conceptions to Address the Question. G.W. Evans, M.A. Lewis, The Role of Adaptive Processes in Intellectual Functioning Among Older Adults. D.J. Herrmann, Self-Perceptions of Memory Performance. S.L. Syme, Control and Health: An Epidemiological Perspective. S. Cohen, Control and the Epidemiology of Physical Health: Where Do We Go From Here? C. Peterson, Personal Control and Health Promotion: A Psychological Perspective. C. Schooler, Afterword.

"...the volume offers a number of new, interesting, and potentially important perspectives."—Contemporary Psychology"This volume is the rich outgrowth of a conference organized by its editors....an exceptionally valuable contribution to the literatures on stress and coping, the life course, and social epidemiology....perhaps this magnificent volume, as Matilda White Riley contends in its foreword, symbolizes 'the gradual reemergence of the power of the social sciences.'"—JoAnn L. Miller,Contemporary Sociology