The Social Constructedness of Resilience

Social Sciences

Martin Endress¹ 

[1] Department IV: Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Informatics, University of Trier, Trier 54286, Germany; E-Mail

关键词: resilience;    social construction;    relevance;    perspectivity;    relativism;    temporality;    normality;    power;   

DOI  :  10.3390/socsci4030533

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This essay aims to clarify what it means to de-essentialize the concept of “resilience”. Pre-determinated assumptions regarding its normativity or positive character are to be disproven in order to conceptualize it as an open (social) process; thus to adopt a social constructivist perspective on the phenomenon to which this term refers, while avoiding the typical pitfalls of relativism.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.