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The Notion of Resilience: Trajectories and Social Science Perspective

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The keyword of resilience has gained a tremendous trajectory within the last years. If you search for resilience in Google Ngram Viewer, a program which allows you to monitor the use of specific terms within books, it shows, that this term was not used in German-speaking countries (except for a short period between 1942 and 1950) until the 1970s. This changed, slowly after 1990 and significantly after 2000.

Revised version of an originally in German published article (Bonß, W. 2015. Karriere und sozialwissenschaftliche Potentiale des Resilienzbegriffs, pp. 15-31 in: Endreß, M. and A. Maurer (ed.), 2015: Resilienz im Sozialen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.). The article is translated into English by Janosch Stolle, Andrea Maurer, and Laura Lehto.

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Bonß, W. (2016). The Notion of Resilience: Trajectories and Social Science Perspective. In: Maurer, A. (eds) New Perspectives on Resilience in Socio-Economic Spheres. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13328-3_2

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