Notes
Contributions in this special section are based on papers presented at an international expert workshop on “Agency and human development under conditions of social change” held June 4–6, 2005 in Jena, Germany. We would like to thank all workshop participants for insightful comments and productive discussions. The workshop was co‐sponsored by the Collaborative Research Consortium “Social developments after structural change. Discontinuity, tradition, structural formation” (SFB 580) and by the Center for Applied Developmental Science at the University of Jena, Germany.