Resilience Processes in the Face of Disruptive Phenomena. On the Societal Perception of Security Policies and Terrorist Threats

当前的复原力论述与当代关于社会不安全状况的讨论相联系，典型地反映在对（“西方”）社会的恐怖主义威胁（恐惧）中。该项目的总体目标是全面分析关于这些社会不安全情景的讨论，并分析其可行性和潜力。将采用双重实证方法：一方面，将分析安全政策领域，继续和扩展第一资助阶段的知识社会学研究。另一方面，解释模式，这是安全的政策和做法在反恐背景下的指导思想，将调查的援助下，由研究小组，弹性战略，弹性处置和弹性资源开发的分析层面。该项目包括两项互补的研究。组成部分研究1（“复原力作为安全政策领域社会自我认知的一个概念”）旨在结合发展复原力知识社会学的总体目标进行案例研究。它分析的解释模式，结构的安全政策的专业政治行为者。组成部分研究2（“公共媒体话语中的安全政策和在恐怖主义（恐惧）时期的复原力”）与这一分析系统地相互关联，并再次从知识社会学角度调查公共媒体在反恐背景下关于安全政策的话语。这两项研究共同构成了社会学关于复原力的理论工作的一个组成部分，并有助于发展一个关于复原力作为社会自我感知概念的总体知识社会学。因此，它们与项目（“弹性理论”）密切相关，并有助于勾勒整个研究小组的社会建构主义方法。研究小组的理论和概念分析与知识社会学反思之间的系统联系，将有助于以双重方式对社会建构主义探索的历史性进行方法论认识：关于历史历史研究以及关于研究小组的理论和比较类型学努力。

The current resilience discourse ties in with contemporary discussions on societal scenarios of insecurity, paradigmatically reflected in the (fear of) terrorist threats to ('western') societies. It is the overall aim of the project to comprehensively analyze the discussions on these societal scenarios of insecurity with regard to their resilience-analytical contours and potentials. A twofold empirical approach will be employed: On the one hand the field of security policy will be analyzed, in continuation and extension of the knowledge-sociological study in the first funding phase. On the other hand, the interpretative patterns, which serve as guiding ideas of security in policies and practices in the context of counterterrorism, will be investigated with the aid of the analytical dimensions developed by the research group, of resilience strategies, resilience dispositions, and resilience resources. The project consists of two complementary studies. Component study 1 ('Resilience as a concept of societal self-perception in the field of security policy') aims at a case study in the context of the overarching objective to develop a sociology of knowledge with regard to resilience. It analyzes the interpretative patterns which structure the security policies of professional political actors. Component study 2 ('Security policy and resilience in times of (fear of) terrorism in public-media discourse') is systematically interrelated with this analysis and aims - again in a knowledge-sociological perspective - at an investigation of the public-media discourse on security policies in the context of counterterrorism. Both studies together constitute an integral element in the sociological theoretical work on resilience and contribute to the development of an overarching sociology of knowledge with regard to resilience as a concept of societal self-perception. They are thus closely related to the project ('Theory of Resilience') and help to contour the social-constructionist approach of the research group as a whole. The systematic linkage between theoretical and conceptual analyses of the research group on the one hand and knowledge-sociological reflections on the other will facilitate the methodological awareness to the historicity of social-constructionist explorations in a twofold manner: with regard to empirical-historical investigations as well as with respect to the theoretical and comparative-typological endeavours of the research group.