Academic Journal
Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation.
| Τίτλος: | Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Qi, Xiaoying1 (AUTHOR) xiaoying.qi@acu.edu.au |
| Πηγή: | Sociological Inquiry. May2026, Vol. 96 Issue 2, p247-263. 17p. |
| Θεματικοί όροι: | *Crises, *Possibility, *Empirical research, *Sociology |
| Περίληψη: | Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural. In crisis, a situation of adversity is combined with a positive prospect of possibility previously unnoticed or unavailable that is exposed or generated by the disruption. Against the traditional or established tendency to define crisis as a moment or a turning point, the article argues that crisis is best understood as an unfolding dynamic process of change or courses of generative development. In explicating crisis, a counter‐transformation approach is developed. Drawing on empirical data, the article expands the sociological understanding of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | Academic Search Index |
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