Coordination Funds

说到“恢复力”，各种学科最近都采用了来自（特别是）社会生态学和发展心理学的科学方法，针对特定类别的社会过程：他们调查在外部存在威胁（例如，自然灾害或社会损害）的情况下，可能确保个体和/或社会“系统”生存或保存的策略、资源和条件。通过将“弹性”与危机、威胁、脆弱性和风险现象进行对比，可以更具体地描述“弹性”。与这些概念相反，弹性关注的是社会和社会结构和单位在面对特殊的、破坏性的社会变革过程时坚持和抵抗的潜力。在此背景之前，研究小组的目标是在历史科学和社会学之间的对话中发展和完善弹性的概念。这个概念应该允许分析非线性和多层次的社会历史进程，其特征是连续性和非连续性现象之间的密切联系，例如在13至17世纪的历史进程中观察到的。这种创新的方法不是用本质主义的术语来构想“弹性”，而是作为一种分析过程的启发式方法，它将使研究小组能够在采用社会生态话语的弹性方法时探索转型的需求，以及由此产生的社会历史研究潜力。这样，研究小组以第一个供资期的见解和成果为基础，根据迄今已证明非常富有成效的概念继续其工作，进一步完善这些概念，同时补充其理论和经验基础。第二个资助期的研究将特别集中于分析历史进程中连续性和非连续性现象之间的联系，以及在破坏性变化的社会历史阶段对破坏性现象的看法和意义。鉴于其分析潜力，将在现代和13至17世纪星座分析中使用的弹性概念与其他社会历史过程概念进行比较；其可持续性及其概念盈余将得到实证检验。研究小组将考虑有关时代观念的历史变化，当前的威胁，以及伴随而来的关于人类能动性的观念。该小组将借鉴一套具体的项目方法：从定性社会研究的顺序分析技术；历史解释学和语义学中的文本比较，以及历史网络的分析。

Speaking of ‘resilience’, various academic disciplines have recently adopted scientific approaches from (in particular) Social Ecology and Developmental Psychology aimed at a specific class of social processes: They investigate strategies, resources and conditions that can potentially ensure the survival or preservation of individual and/or social ‘systems’ in cases of external existential threats (e.g., natural disasters or social damages). References to ‘resilience’ are more specifically framed by contrasting it with phenomena of crisis, threat, vulnerability, and risk. In contrast to these concepts, resilience focuses on the potential of social and societal structures and units to persist and resist when faced with exceptional, disruptive processes of social change. Before this background, the Research Group aims at developing and refining a concept of resilience in dialogue between the historical sciences and Sociology. This concept should allow for analysing non-linear and multi-layered socio-historical processes characterized by a close connection between phenomena of continuity and discontinuity, such as they have been observed in historical processes of the 13th to 17th centuries. This innovative approach, which conceives of ‘resilience’ not in essentialist terms but as a heuristic for analysing processes, will enable the Research Group to explore both the needs of transformation when adopting the resilience approach of the socio-ecological discourse, and the resulting potentials for socio-historical research. In this way, the Research Group builds on the insights and proceeds of the first funding period, continues its work in view of the concepts developed thus far, which have proven to be extremely fruitful, refines them further, at the same time complementing their theoretical and empirical bases. Research during the second funding period will focus especially on analysing the connections between phenomena of continuity and discontinuity in historical processes, and on the perception and meaning of disruptive phenomena in socio-historical phases of disruptive change. The concept of resilience used in the analysis of both modern and 13th- to 17th-century constellations will be compared, in view of its analytical potential, with other socio-historical conceptions of process; its sustainability and its conceptual surplus will be tested empirically. The Research Group will consider the historical variation in the notions concerning the times, the current threats, and the concomitant ideas concerning human agency. The group will draw on a set of project-specific methods: techniques of sequential analysis from qualitative social research; textual comparison as current in historical hermeneutics and semantics, and the analysis of historical networks.