Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Comments on the Individualization Theorem / Neubauer, Georg / Hurrelmann, Klaus -- Part 1. Theoretical Backgrounds -- The Role of Individualization Theory in Adolescent Socialization / Heitmeyer, Wilhelm / Olk, Thomas -- Childhood Between Individualization and Institutionalization / Sünker, Heinz -- Health Impairments in Adolescence: The Biopsychosocial "Costs" of the Modern Life-Style / Hurrelmann, Klaus / Maggs, Jennifer L. -- Part 2. Individualization and Politics -- Youth and Politics: Destabilization of Political Orientations / Heitmeyer, Wilhelm / Möller, Kurt / Siller, Gertrud -- The Syndrome of Right-Wing Extremism Among School Children: An East-West Comparison / Melzer, Wolfgang -- Are Girls Less Political Than Boys? Research Strategies and Concepts of Gender Studies Among 9 to 12-Year-Olds / Jacobi, Juliane -- Part 3. Individualization and Relationship -- Individualized Life Plans and Concepts of Partnership During Adolescence / Neubauer, Georg -- "Kids'-Stuff Boys" and "Stuck-Up Little Madams": 13- to 16-Year-Olds in School and Peer Group / Tillmann, Klaus-Jürgen -- Sexual Abuse in Childhood: Toward an Individual or Institutionalized Solution? / Emmerich, Inge / Neubauer, Georg -- Part 4. Individualization and Education -- Educational Perspectives and Psychosocial Problems of East German Adolescents / Palentien, Christian / Pollmer, Käte / Hurrelmann, Klaus -- Preschool Individualization: From an Authoritarian to a Consensus Mode of Motive Coordination / Holodynski, Manfred -- Human Capital Theory and the Individualization Theorem / Timmermann, Dieter -- Part 5. Individualization and Leisure -- Individualization and Youth Fashions / Ferchhoff, Wilfried -- Adolescent Consumption: Demonstration or Compensation? / Lange, Elmar -- Sports and Social Integration During Adolescence / Brinkhoff, Klaus-Peter -- Part 6. Individualization and Mass Media -- Individualization Processes in the Media Society / Baacke, Dieter / Sander, Uwe / Vollbrecht, Ralf -- The "Mediatization" of Childhood: Between Consumer Culture and Individuality / Treumann, Klaus Peter / Volkmer, Ingrid