3ReSilience Research Group

Overview

The 3ReSilience Research Group explores the transgenerational layers of collective trauma in Hungarian society, focusing on how past wounds can become sources of renewal shaping social relations, public discourse, and everyday life. How conscious is trauma at the collective level? How does it shape values and cohesion? How might individuals transform inherited trauma into resilience?

As Crawford (2013) notes, trauma endures through sanctioned memory, linking history to present suffering and resilience. It is not static but a reinterpreted story tied to historical turning points such as Trianon, the Holocaust, regime change, and COVID-19.

Digitalization, migration, and plural identities create new ways collective traumas are lived and processed. Intersecting systems of values and belonging determine how social resilience evolves. As Young (1997) argues, trauma is historically and culturally variable. 

Our research examines collective trauma as a multilayered social phenomenon unfolding across three analytical dimensions, revealing not only breakdowns but also pathways of positive deviance and resilience:

  • Experiential: family patterns, intergenerational roles, and how trauma is transmitted, silenced, or reshaped. Lived experience and emotional memory show how coping feeds into collective resilience.

  • Relational: social conflicts, value tensions, and communication across communities and institutions. How trauma reshapes cohesion, trust, and moral boundaries – how societies balance memory and amnesia, empathy and division.

  • Representation: cultural, bodily, and digital expressions of trauma in media, art and online spaces. How collective suffering is reimagined, embodied, or aestheticized, fostering or hindering healing.

Using trauma mapping, we trace how social patterns connect to pathways of vulnerability and regeneration, studying the transition from communicative memory into cultural memory. As Mohatt et al. (2014) show, communities burdened by historical trauma often face long-term mental health impacts. In response, we examine positive deviance and resilience to understand how communities transform trauma into new social resources.

Methodologically, the group is interdisciplinary, inviting collaborations in trauma studies, resilience, and digital transformation – creating a shared space where theory meets impact and reflection supports renewal.
Our vision is: to develop a social tool for reconciliation dialogue – transforming from resilience to re-silence.

Research group members

  • Karolina LENDÁK-KABÓK, Associate Professor, Head of Research Group, Department of Minority Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE, Budapest

  • György CSEPELI, Professor Emeritus, Head of Research Group, Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE, Budapest

  • Sándor BATÁR, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

  • Károly Ádám BÚZA, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

  • Ivetta DÉLCZEGH, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

  • Márk EDELÉNYI, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

  • Katalin FARAGÓ,  PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

  • Linda KALOCSAI-KOPANYICZA, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

  • Dániel G. NÉMETH, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

  • Krisztina R. SCHAY, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

  • Katalin SCHWARZ, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

  • Szonja SZOBECZKI, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE

Keywords

Resilience, collective trauma, positive deviance, value dynamics, digitalization

Outputs

Csepeli, Gy. (2023). Értékek ébresztése. Kocsis Kiadó. p.232.

Délczegh, I. et al. (2025). A Z generáció altruizmusa és hatása a fenntartható fejlődésre. MÁLTAI TANULMÁNYOK: A MAGYAR MÁLTAI SZERETETSZOLGÁLAT TUDOMÁNYOS FOLYÓIRATA 7:2 pp. 45-67., 23 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.56699/MT.2025.2.3

Edelényi, M. (2025). A magyar vélemény- és közvélemény-kutatás és intézményrendszerének története a kezdetektől a rendszerváltásig és a TK - ELTE - TÁTK Szociológiai Doktori Iskola. Professzorok az Európai Magyarországért Egyesület. 130-142. https://peme.hu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/XXIX-PEME-konferencia-konyv-PDF.pdf

Lendák-Kabók, K. (2024). The Yugoslav War that was not theirs: The case of national minority millennials. Nations and Nationalism, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.13003

Lendák-Kabók, K. (2024). Mixedness in conflict: The impact of Yugoslav wars on intermarriages in the Western Balkans. Sociology Compass, 18(7): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13242

Schwarz, K. (2025). Local Meanings of the Holocaust Memory in Zrenjanin (Serbia). STUDIA HUMANISTYCZNE AGH / CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMANITIES Studia Humanistyczne AGH. Społeczeństwo. Kultura. Technologia : Vol. 23 No. 2 (2024) pp. 75-89. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7494/human.2024.23.2.6623 

Contact information (leader)

Karolina LENDÁK-KABÓK
Associate Professor
Department of Minority Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) 
3re.silience@tatk.elte.hu 
karolina.kabok@tatk.elte.hu