Débora Rinaldi

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From Social Bonds to Resonance Theory: An Analysis of the Mutual Fulfillment of Needs

This project examines social relationships between social assistance recipients and social workers in Brazil and Germany, focusing on how the mutual fulfillment of needs contributes to the emergence of resonant relationships. Drawing on attachment theory, sociological approaches to social ties, and Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance, the study analyzes how institutional interactions shape experiences of recognition, security, and self-efficacy.

The main objective is to understand the role of mutual need satisfaction in the construction of successful or unsuccessful world relationships within welfare institutions and its consequences for recipients’ life conditions. The main research tries to answer the following question: what role does the mutual meeting of needs play in the development of successful versus unsuccessful interpersonal relations, and what other factors should be considered?

Methodologically, the project uses an interpretive and reconstructive approach based on biographical-narrative interviews with welfare recipients and focused interviews with social workers in Porto Alegre and Berlin. The analysis follows a comparative and reconstructive strategy.

The expected results include theoretical contributions to debates on social bonds and resonance, empirical insights into institutional relationship-building, and practical knowledge for improving social assistance practices.

SHORT LIST PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

• Rinaldi, D., & Bagolin, I. P. (2025). Aspirações: origem e evolução de um conceito interdisciplinar (Aspirations: origin and evolution of an interdisciplinary concept). Novos Estudos CEBRAP, 44, 1–22. 
• Rinaldi, D., Santos Filho, H. P., & Köttig, M. (2025). Uma análise biográfica dos efeitos do Programa Bolsa Família: a relação entre individualidade, o atendimento de necessidades e o desenvolvimento de capacitações (A biographical analysis of the effects of the Bolsa Família Program: the relationship between individuality, needs fulfillment, and capability development). Interseções – Revista de Estudos Interdisciplinares, 26, 1–22. 
• Rinaldi, D. (2025). Das brasilianische Transferprogramm Bolsa Família: Eine biografisch bedürfniszentrierte Interventionsanalyse? (The Brazilian cash transfer program Bolsa Família: a biographically needs-centered intervention analysis?). 14, 5–26. doi.org/10.48718/xvjq-h638 
• Sangalli, L. C., & Rinaldi, D. (2018). Pesquisa social interpretativa alemã: os métodos de entrevista narrativa biográfica e de reconstrução biográfica de caso (German interpretive social research: the biographical narrative interview and biographical case reconstruction methods). Em Tese (Florianópolis), 15, 107–136. 
• Rinaldi, D., & Queirolo Susin, P. (2024). Pesquisa Social e suas contribuições para o desenvolvimento de Políticas Públicas e Organizacionais (Social research and its contributions to the development of public and organizational policies). Conversas & Controvérsias, 11, e46976–3. 
• Rinaldi, D. (2025). A interpretação da catação de resíduos pelos catadores: contribuições desde a sociologia interpretativa (Interpreting waste picking by waste pickers: contributions from interpretive sociology). Conversas & Controvérsias, 12, 1–17. 
• Rinaldi, D., & Cardoso, S. (2019). A função política dos discursos sociais e suas implicações sobre a biografia (The political function of social discourses and their implications for biography). Conversas & Controvérsias, 6, 34324. 
• Rinaldi, D. (2016). Trabalho e geração de renda nas classes populares a exemplo do grupo de catadores (Work and income generation among popular classes: the case of waste pickers). Contraponto, 3, 2–23. 
• Rinaldi, D., & Santos, H. (2023). Apresentação à edição brasileira (Presentation to the Brazilian edition). In R. Keller, O paradigma interpretativo: uma introdução. Porto Alegre: EDIPUC, pp. 9–11.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Cé Sangalli, L.; Rinaldi, D.; Soares, Marcela (2026). Enslavement and the slave trade as a topic in schools in Ghana and Brazil. In: Rosenthal, Gabriele; Pohn-Lauggas, Maria (Eds.): Individual and collective memories of slavery and the slave trade in Ghana and Brazil. Göttingen Series in Sociological Biographical Research. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, in press. 
• Kottig, M.; Rinaldi, D.; Singl, J. (2026). Biographical research in social work research and practice in Brazil and Germany. In: Rosenthal, Gabriele; Becker, Johannes; Pohn-Lauggas, Maria & Worm, Arne (Eds.). Handbook of Biographical Research in the Social Sciences. Edward Elgar Publishing, in press. 
• Rinaldi, D. (2024). A trajetória dos serviços de acompanhamento social na cidade de Porto Alegre (The trajectory of social monitoring services in the city of Porto Alegre). In R. M. Madeira, T. M. Santo, C. Corrêa, T. F. S. Bringhenti, & S. Cardoso (Eds.), Diálogos acadêmicos em Ciências Sociais – Volume I. Caxias do Sul: EDUCS, pp. 116–141.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Rinaldi, D. (2023). Métodos Interpretativos de Pesquisa na Avaliação de impacto de Políticas Públicas (Interpretive research methods in the evaluation of public policy impacts). In Proceedings of the VI SIPINF – Seminário Internacional sobre Políticas Públicas, Intersetorialidade e Família: desafios para a preservação/reconstrução da democracia, da saúde e da vida. Porto Alegre: EDIPUC, 1, 1–15. 
• Rinaldi, D. (2023). Métodos Interpretativos de Pesquisa na Avaliação de impacto de Políticas Públicas (Interpretive research methods in the evaluation of public policy impacts). In Proceedings of the 47th ANPOCS Annual Meeting. Campinas: ANPOCS, 1, 1–22.