Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and in eastern Germany: opportunity structures and individual agency in a comparative perspective

捷克和德国东部农村边缘地区的社会劣势：比较视角下的机会结构和个人能动性

• 批准号: 391073923
• 负责人: Privatdozent Dr. Andreas Klärner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Akademie věd České republiky (CAS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/391073923?language=en
• 关键词: Social; disadvantage; rural; peripheries; Czechia

The project investigates the interrelations between social disadvantage, local and regional opportunity structures and individual agency in rural regions with particular economic and demographic problems (rural peripheries) in Czechia and eastern Germany. The project focuses on two sets of research questions. The first set concerns the spatial patterns of social disadvantage and deprivation in rural areas in general, as well as the extent and prevailing forms of social disadvantage and opportunity structures in rural peripheries more specifically. The second set asks for the impact of such opportunity structures (e.g., social networks or the accessibility of labour markets and education facilities) as part of the local and regional residential context on socially disadvantaged groups and the interdependencies between opportunity structures and individual agency. In a first step, both teams conduct area-based statistical secondary analyses of all rural areas to identify rural peripheries in Czechia and in eastern Germany, to analyse the availability and accessibility of local and regional opportunity structures and to investigate ongoing processes of rural restructuring. Based on that, the teams will conduct in-depth case studies in two preferably distinct rural peripheries each in Czechia and eastern Germany with regard to the interrelations between social disadvantage, opportunity structures and individual agency. This will be done with a mixed-methods design combining expert interviews with regional stakeholders and qualitative problem-centred interviews with members of socially disadvantaged groups. This research step will also include the investigation of ego-centred networks and time-space activity patterns of socially disadvantaged actors. By means of follow-up interviews, in-depth information on the interrelations between opportunity structures, social networks and individual agency will be collected.All project steps will be based on a close cooperation of the Czech and the German research partners. The teams will interpret the generated data in common discussions to identify factors and processes of social disadvantage in rural peripheries in a comparative way and to find commonalities and differences between Czechia and eastern Germany. The project is innovative as it analyses the actual relevance of local and regional opportunity structures in rural peripheries for individual agency and social integration of socially disadvantaged groups in a cross-national perspective and with a multi-method design. It will, thus, conceptually, methodologically and empirically contribute to the debates on peripheralisation and rural restructuring.

该项目调查捷克和德国东部有特殊经济和人口问题的农村地区（农村周边地区）的社会不利条件、地方和区域机会结构以及个人能动性之间的相互关系。该项目侧重于两组研究问题。第一组涉及农村地区社会不利地位和贫困的空间格局，以及更具体地说，农村周边地区社会不利地位和机会结构的程度和普遍形式。第二组询问这种机会结构的影响（例如，社交网络或劳动力市场和教育设施的无障碍性）作为地方和区域居住环境的一部分，对社会弱势群体的影响以及机会结构与个人机构之间的相互依赖关系。第一步，两个小组对所有农村地区进行基于地区的二级统计分析，以确定捷克和德国东部的农村边缘地区，分析地方和区域机会结构的可获得性和可利用性，并调查农村结构调整的现行进程。在此基础上，这些小组将在捷克和德国东部两个最好是不同的农村周边地区就社会不利条件、机会结构和个人机构之间的相互关系进行深入的个案研究。将采用混合方法设计，将与区域利益攸关方的专家访谈和与社会弱势群体成员的以问题为中心的定性访谈结合起来。这一研究步骤还将包括调查以自我为中心的网络和社会弱势行为者的时空活动模式。通过后续访谈，将收集关于机会结构、社交网络和个别机构之间相互关系的深入信息。所有项目步骤都将基于捷克和德国研究伙伴的密切合作。这些小组将在共同讨论中解释所产生的数据，以比较的方式确定农村周边地区社会不利因素和过程，并找出捷克和德国东部之间的共同点和差异。该项目具有创新性，因为它分析了农村周边地区的地方和区域机会结构对个别机构的实际意义，并从跨国的角度，采用多种方法设计社会处境不利群体的社会融合。因此，它将在概念上，方法论和经验上有助于边缘化和农村结构调整的辩论。