Tim Sven Müller

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | HU Berlin · Department of Social Sciences

Im Rahmen dieser retrospektiven Studie wurden sechs qualitative Interviews mit Befragten geführt, die während ihrer Jugendphase in Berlin oder Bonn gelebt hatten und sich in einem radikalisierungsfördernden Umfeld befunden hatten. Anhand des Interviewmaterials wurden rückblickend subjektive Deutungen einer möglichen Widerstandsfähigkeit in Bezug au...

Politischer Extremismus, sowohl im rechtsextremen als auch im islamistischen Spektrum, bleibt eine gesellschaftliche Herausforderung, die die Erforschung effektiver Präventionsmethoden notwendig macht, die ressourcenorientiert und nicht stigmatisierend, praxisnah und universell anwendbar sind. Im vorliegenden Projekt nahmen wir eine Resilienzpers...

Differences in national responses to COVID-19 have been associated with the cultural value of collectivism. The present research builds on these findings by examining the relationship between collectivism at the individual level and adherence to public health recommendations to combat COVID-19 during the pre-vaccination stage of the pandemic, and e...

Die Entwicklung der persönlichen, sozialen und ethnisch-kulturellen Identität stellt eine zentrale Entwicklungsaufgabe im Jugendalter dar. Insbesondere für Schüler*innen aus sozial und ethnisch-kulturell unterrepräsentierten oder marginalisierten Gruppen gestaltet sich dieser Entwicklungsprozess zwischen Erwartungen von Lehrer*innen, Mitschüler*inn...

In light of current egalitarian norms, it seems intuitive to assume that people endorsing ethnically prejudicial beliefs are largely unaware of their xenophobic content. However, a cognitive consistency perspective would suggest that individuals with low anti-prejudice standards might care less if their opinions are prejudiced. Corroborating this i...

A theory-based intervention known as “self-affirmation” provides people with the opportunity to affirm a sense of self-integrity, a global image of moral and adaptive adequacy, at moments of psychological threat. By assuaging threat, affirmations can allay stress and defensive responding. The positive impact of self-affirmations has been shown in m...

This study examines the effectiveness of a self-affirmation intervention to improve academic achievement for students with a “double-jeopardy status” of belonging to two potentially disadvantaged groups at the same time: girls with a minority background. The method established in the U.S. is adapted to the German cultural context and evaluated for...

Residential segregation along ethnic categories has been associated with social disadvantages of minority group members. It is considered a driving factor in the reproduction of social inequalities and a pressing issue in many societies. While most research focuses on neighbourhood segregation in the United States, less is known about the origins o...

Unser Autor, der Berliner Sozialwissenschaftler Tim Müller, macht den Faktencheck: In Auswertung zahlreicher Untersuchungen, die inzwischen über Migration und Flüchtlingsströme vorliegen, bietet der Artikel umfassende Informationen und differenzierte Einschätzungen zur Flüchtlingsfrage. Er zeigt, wie die Integration Geflüchteter gelingen kann und v...

We consider data where we have individuals affiliated with at most one or- ganisational unit and where the interest is in modelling changes to these affiliations over time. This could be the case of people working for organisations or people liv- ing in neighbourhoods. We draw on dynamic models for social networks to propose an actor-oriented model...

Paper presented at the Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting, 2014.

New right-wing extremist parties all over Europe have been described as adopting a master framethat combines xenophobia and anti-political establishment populism (Rydgren 2004). In Sweden the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna, SD) have emerged as the dominating newright-wing extremist party that was able to more than double their share of votes...

Religious socialization occurs within the immediate family as well as in the broader social context. Previous research has shown that parents’ religiosity matters less for the transmission of religious beliefs in devout than in secular nations, implying smaller costs of religious socialization. In this article we test which other societal factors a...

This thesis deals with the determinants and mechanisms of individual secularisation processes in a cross-national perspective. In this ‘collected volume’ of six stand-alone articles, I examine religious beliefs and behaviours as well as attitudes towards religion and politics, whereby the validity of the main theories of religious change (classical...

The aim of this article is to present two different roles of the state affecting individuals' religiosity. First, we provide evidence for the effectiveness of socialist regimes in influencing citizens' opinions by comparing religious beliefs among several generations of Eastern Europeans. Second, the article explores whether the democratization pro...

This paper examines the antecedents of preferences for the involvement of religious leaders in politics. Hypotheses derived from secularization theories as well as from RC-Frameworks are tested empirically using WVS data. Multilevel-Analysis is used in order to account for the nested structure of the data. Most cross-national differences can be exp...