Chances of ‘resilience’ as a concept for sociological poverty research

Promberger M, Meier L, Sowa F, Boost MK (2019)

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2019

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Edited Volumes: Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres

Pages Range: 249-278

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-15329-8_13

Abstract

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.

Authors with CRIS profile

Markus Promberger
Marie-Katrin Boost Institut für Soziologie

Involved external institutions

Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) DE Germany (DE) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main DE Germany (DE) Technische Hochschule Nürnberg "Georg Simon Ohm" DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Promberger, M., Meier, L., Sowa, F., & Boost, M.-K. (2019). Chances of ‘resilience’ as a concept for sociological poverty research. In Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres. (pp. 249-278). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

MLA:

Promberger, Markus, et al. "Chances of ‘resilience’ as a concept for sociological poverty research." Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019. 249-278.

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