Bischoff Luisa, Franke Annette, Wanka Anna
Research Training Group "Doing Transitions", Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Department of Social Work, Protestant University of Applied Sciences, Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Front Sociol. 2021 Oct 26;6:723359. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.723359. eCollection 2021.
In the process of life course transitions, relations between the self and the world transform, which can according to Hartmut Rosa be framed as resonance. This article focuses on the retirement transition and thus on the exit from gainful employment as one of the central spheres of our world relationship in late modernity. It raises the following questions: How do experiences of resonance change in the course of the retirement transition? Does the loss of gainful employment lead to disruptions or even the absence of resonance in terms of alienation? And which role do dimensions of social inequality, such as gender, income, education or mental health status play for resonance transformations in the transition to retirement? In terms of a reflexive mixed-methods design, this article combines quantitative panel data from the German Ageing Survey (2008-17) with a qualitative longitudinal study from the project "Doing Retiring" (2017-21). Our results show that the transition from work to retirement entails a specific "resonance choreography" that comprises a phase of disaffection (lack of resonance) at the end of one's working life followed by a liminal phase in which people search for intensified experiences of resonance. We outline practices in which transitioning subjects seek out resonance, and the experiences they make within this process according to their social positions. We thereby find that the desire for resonance tends to be beyond intentional resonance management which manifests in products and services like coaching or wellness. In our conclusions, we discuss how resonance theory and retirement research/life course research can be fruitfully combined, but also highlight the methodological challenges the operationalization of resonance entails.
在生命历程转变的过程中，自我与世界的关系会发生转变，根据哈特穆特·罗萨的观点，这种转变可以被界定为共鸣。本文聚焦于退休转变，进而关注有偿就业的退出，这是现代晚期我们与世界关系的核心领域之一。本文提出以下问题：在退休转变过程中，共鸣体验如何变化？有偿就业的丧失是否会导致异化意义上的共鸣中断甚至缺失？社会不平等的维度，如性别、收入、教育或心理健康状况，在退休过渡的共鸣转变中扮演何种角色？在一项反思性混合方法设计中，本文将来自德国老龄化调查（2008 - 2017年）的定量面板数据与“退休进行时”项目（2017 - 2021年）的定性纵向研究相结合。我们的研究结果表明，从工作到退休的转变需要一种特定的“共鸣编排”，其中包括职业生涯结束时的不满阶段（共鸣缺失），随后是一个临界阶段，在此阶段人们寻求增强的共鸣体验。我们概述了转型主体寻求共鸣的实践，以及他们在此过程中根据自身社会地位所获得的体验。由此我们发现，对共鸣的渴望往往超越了在诸如辅导或健康等产品和服务中体现的有意的共鸣管理。在结论部分，我们讨论了共鸣理论与退休研究/生命历程研究如何能够富有成效地结合，但同时也强调了共鸣操作化所带来的方法学挑战。
