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In Search of the Golden Factor: Conceptualizing Resilience in the Framework of New Economic Sociology by Focusing ‘Loyalty’

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Resilience originally meant the trait of individuals or of ecosystems to overcome threatening circumstances. In the case of humans, it states an individual’s ability to reach normal development after difficult life events like material poverty, war or social anomy. Resilience appears in reaching normal biography and successful social integration.

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