More than any other facet of resilience, social resilience raises the inherent tension within the concept between identity or persistence, and transformation. Is a community the people who make it up, or the geography or physical infrastructure they share? What about the resilience of communities that transform, as a result of a sudden disaster or over time? In this paper, we explore the impact of this tension on how social resilience indicators can be developed and used. Beginning with a close look at the ways in which our concepts of resilience and our use of indicators interact, several points are raised. First, that how we identify a community and frame its resilience conveys particular conceptualisations of resilience, which in turn have normative implications for the communities themselves. In part, this is because of the difficulty in capturing important adaptations and transformative actions within and by those communities. Further, measuring and comparing the resilience of communities, and aspects of quantification that go along with selecting, aggregating and comparing indicator values, ensure that the decisions made about how indicators ought to be used carry normative weight. Through this exploration, we identify several normative implications of choices in indicator design and application. We conclude with recommendations for moving forward with greater transparency and responsibility toward those communities whose social resilience we hope to measure in order to improve.

社会弹性比其他任何弹性方面都更能引起认同或持久性与转变之间的内在张力。社区是组成它的人，还是他们共享的地理或物理基础设施？突然的灾难或随着时间的推移，转型社区的复原力又如何呢？在本文中，我们探讨了这种紧张状况对如何开发和使用社会适应力指标的影响。首先仔细研究我们的弹性概念和指标使用之间的相互作用方式，提出了几点。首先，我们如何识别社区并构架其抗灾力传达了特定的抗灾概念，反过来又对社区本身产生了规范意义。部分地，这是因为很难在这些社区内部和社区中获取重要的适应和变革行动。此外，测量和比较社区的弹性，以及选择，汇总和比较指标值所伴随的量化方面，确保有关应如何使用指标的决策具有规范性。通过这次探索，我们确定了指标设计和应用中选择的几种规范含义。最后，我们提出了一些建议，以更高的透明度和更大的责任感向那些我们希望衡量其社会适应力以改善的社区提供帮助。以及选择，汇总和比较指标值所伴随的量化方面，确保有关应如何使用指标的决定具有规范的权重。通过这一探索，我们确定了指标设计和应用中选择的几种规范含义。最后，我们提出了一些建议，以更高的透明度和更大的责任感向那些我们希望衡量其社会适应力以改善的社区提供帮助。以及选择，汇总和比较指标值所伴随的量化方面，确保有关应如何使用指标的决定具有规范的权重。通过这次探索，我们确定了指标设计和应用中选择的几种规范含义。最后，我们提出了一些建议，以更高的透明度和更大的责任感向那些我们希望衡量其社会适应力以改善的社区提供帮助。