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Chances of ‘Resilience’ as a Concept for Sociological Poverty Research

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Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres

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If we take a look at the development of poverty in Germany over the last few decades, we have to notice several million people living in poverty since at least as early as the 1970s, irrespective of changes in economic situation, transformations in business structures, shifts in political paradigms, methods of fighting poverty or changes in the procedures for measuring poverty. Thus, although compensatory benefits have cushioned poverty successfully for the most part in Germany and other welfare states in the west, attempts to reduce poverty significantly have failed despite activation policies launched and implemented with promises of great success. If we share the European political goal of reducing poverty as extensively as possible—a component of the implicit sociopolitical consensus in Europe –, we have to admit that we are dealing with a fundamental and permanent crisis in the politics to fight poverty.

This article was developed in the framework of of the project “RESCuE – Patterns of Resilience during Socioeconomic Crises among Households in Europe” (see Promberger et al. 2014; Promberger 2017). The project has received funding under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research since March 1, 2014. The empirical data in sections 4 and 5 are based on secondary analysis of of earlier research projects (see footnote 2), and are to be understood as preliminary studies for the RESCuE project. We are grateful to Martin Endreß and Martin Kronauer for their discerning comments.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    However, research into technology and materials or psychology has also established that there is not a complete return to the original state (see Steinheuser 2009).

  2. 2.

    The first three case examples in this section (Mr Forstmann, Mr Meggle and Ms Albert) come from the “Poverty dynamics and labour market” project, a qualitative panel of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) financed by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs as research according to Section 55 SGB (Social Code Book) II and conducted in cooperation with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS) and the Munich Institute for Sociological Research (Promberger et al. 2007; Hirseland and Ramos Lobato 2010). As part of this study, 150 participants drawing basic security benefits (at times) were questioned in narrative interviews up to four times at yearly intervals. For the first two case examples, we analysed the interviews, participants’ observations and intermediate evaluations (case profiles, longitudinal profiles) of waves one to four (2007–2011). We have restricted quotes then given as examples to the interviews from the first wave due to reasons of economy. The interviews from the first wave include biographical narratives from the past, which generally go back to the year 2000, and often further back than that. The cases of Forstmann and Meggle were selected against the background of an intragroup comparison of males in poverty who had been drawing basic security benefits for a long time, whose lives had developed differently and whose prospects differed within these parameters. Gender, marital status and family of origin are comparatively similar in order not to increase the complexity of the representation unnecessarily. However, in the sense of grounded theory, they would of course have to be introduced as contrast dimensions in the further course of the analysis. The other cases arose out of the fieldwork for a student’s research seminar at the Institute for Sociology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen in the winter semester of 2006/2007 (taught by A. Bosch, A. Hirseland, U. Wenzel and M. Promberger). In order to remain within the scope of this article, we completely omitted all representations of primary materials in favour of condensed extracts from case profiles—with the exception of Meggle’s case. The case profiles, on the other hand, are condensed, reflexive and cross validated interpretations of the cases and extracts from the observation reports. All the names of the interviewees have been changed and all personal data and data regarding times and places have been anonymized, defamiliarised or simplified.

  3. 3.

    Avery (2006) and Seidel et al. (2000) provide a selective overview of this comprehensive research, which goes back to Granovetter (1973).

  4. 4.

    Luís Capucha kindly pointed this issue out to us. He is currently preparing his own publication on this topic. Capucha advocates going over to a ‘resilience’ term that is extended by the observation of intended and unintended consequences instead of maintaining the mainly ‘heroic’ association of the term so far.

  5. 5.

    Georgia Petraki and Yuri Borgmann-Prebil kindly pointed this issue out to us.

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    Martin Endreß

  3. Department IV – General Sociology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

    Marie Naumann

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Promberger, M., Meier, L., Sowa, F., Boost, M. (2019). Chances of ‘Resilience’ as a Concept for Sociological Poverty Research. In: Rampp, B., Endreß, M., Naumann, M. (eds) Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15329-8_13

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