The Social Constructedness of Resilience

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...

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Main Author:	Martin Endress
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2015-07-01
Series:	Social Sciences
Subjects:	resilience social construction relevance perspectivity relativism temporality normality power
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/4/3/533

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spelling	doaj-863bee42c8f64f6b91de0af981589a7c2020-11-24T22:36:27ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602015-07-014353354510.3390/socsci4030533socsci4030533The Social Constructedness of ResilienceMartin Endress0Department IV: Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Informatics, University of Trier, Trier 54286, GermanyThis 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.http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/4/3/533resiliencesocial constructionrelevanceperspectivityrelativismtemporalitynormalitypower
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The Social Constructedness of Resilience

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