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Glossary LIVES

Welcome to the new LIVES wiki-glossary! With over 30 central concepts described and explained, this initiative aims to make interdisciplinary research more simple and straightforward.

For instance, researchers can now benefit from these standard definitions for the analysis of vulnerability in a life-course perspective.

This glossary includes terms such as vulnerability, trajectories, coping, resilience, recovery, resources complementary, resources competition, resources subsidiarity, spillover and crossover across life domains, synergies and conflicts among life domains, capital, trajectories, cumulative (dis)advantages, resilience, causality, mixed methods, multilevel (data and models), longitudinal data (retrospective and prospective), missing data, and more.

LIVES Director Dario Spini and Co-Director Eric Widmer, with the support of the Scientific Officer, Christina Györkös, and the IT Officer, Urs Richle, the CCI and IP leaders, are coordinating this new initiative.

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Panel recommendations	CORE	CCI1	CCI2	CCI3	CCI4
*Vulnerability (*and how this had changed over the course of the project)	Vulnerability (and how this had changed over the course of the project)	Resources distribution		Resources (persoanl, social, economic, etc.)	Causality
*Meso-level	Life Course	Resources complementarity		Capitals	Mixed methods
*Processes, *mechanisms, programs (ne pas traiter?)	Processes, mechanisms, programs	Resources competition		Reserves	Multilevel (data and models)
*Patterns and configurations of resources (CCI1)	Interdependencies across life course dimensions (linking resources across levels, contexts, over time)	Complementary, subsidiary and competitive resources across life domains		Constitution	Longitudinal data (par ex., retrospective and prospective)
*Social capital, social networks and social groups (IP1, IP5) (Ehsan et al)	Trajectories/transitions/bifurcations	Spillover and cross over across life domains		Activation when facing a critical life event	Missing data
*Gendered patterns or gender configurations or gender regimes (IP5, IP6)	Life Events	Synergies and conflicts among life domains		Depletion when facing a critical life event
*Family ties (IP5)		Coping		Reconstitution after depletion
*Resources (*personal, *social, *economic, etc.), *reserves (avec IP1 et IP3), *capabilities		Resilience		Threshold
*Employability, *occupational vulnerabilities, *career development (IP7, IP4)		Recovery		Trajectories
				Cumulative (dis)advantages
				Resilience
				Stress and stressors
				Transactional approach of stress
				Sociological approach of stress: social origin of stress and stress proliferation
				Employability
				Career development