(2024):
How gendered religious norms contribute to the emerging gender gap in Muslim youths’ interreligious friendships.
International Journal of Intercultural Relations,
98,
(article no. 101919), pp. 1-20.
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Dr. Lars Leszczensky
Former MZES Fellow and project director
Projekte — current
- Religion, Religiosität und die sozial-identifikative Integration muslimischer Jugendlicher
- Ethnische Zusammensetzung, Schulideologie und Grenzziehungen zwischen arabischen und jüdischen Schülern in Israel
- Das Zusammenspiel der Netzwerke von Kindern und Eltern bei der Gestaltung ihrer sozialen Welten
Publikation — recent
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(2022): In-Group Bias or Out-Group Reluctance? The Interplay of Gender and Religion in Creating Religious Friendship Segregation among Muslim Youth. Social Forces, 100, 3, 1307–1332. More
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(2022): How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study. Sociological Methods & Research, 51, 2, 837-865. More
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(2022): Studying Youth' Group Identities, Intergroup Relations, and Friendship Networks: The Friendship and Identity in School Data. European Sociological Review, 38, 3, 493-506. More
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(2022): Religious Friendship Preferences of Muslim and Non-Muslim Students in German Schools: Bright Boundaries Everywhere or Contingent on the Proportion of Muslim Classmates?. Social Networks, 68, 60-69. More
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(2021): Social network-based cohorting to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in secondary schools: A simulation study in classrooms of four European countries. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 8, Sept. 21, (article no. 100166). More
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(2020): Are Birds of a Feather Praying Together? Assessing Friends’ Influence on Muslim Youths’ Religiosity in Germany. Social Psychology Quarterly, 83, 3, 251-271. More
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(2020): Choice Modelling in Social Networks Using Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models. Journal of Choice Modelling, 34, March, (article 100202). More
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(2020): Differential Influence of Same- and Cross-Ethnic Friends on Ethnic-Racial Identity Development in Early Adolescence. Child Development, 91, 3, 949-963. More
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(2020): Does the share of religious ingroup members affect how important religion is to adolescents? Applying Optimal Distinctiveness Theory to four European countries. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46, 17, 3703-3721. More
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(2020): Changes in Turkish- and resettler-origin adolescents' acculturation profiles of identification: A three-year longitudinal study from Germany. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49, 12, 2476–2494. More
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(2020): What Factors Best Explain National Identification among Muslim Adolescents? Evidence from Four European Countries. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46, 1, 260-276. More
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(2019): What Drives Ethnic Homophily? A Relational Approach on How Ethnic Identification Moderates Preferences for Same-Ethnic Friends. American Sociological Review, 84, 3, 394-419. More
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(2019): The Interplay of Group Identifications and Friendships: Evidence from Longitudinal Social Network Studies. Journal of Social Issues, 75, 2, 460-485. More
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(2019): Identity Threat and Identity Multiplicity among Minority Youth: Longitudinal Relations of Perceived Discrimination with Ethnic, Religious and National Identification in Germany. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58, 4, 971-990. More
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(2018): Selection and Influence Processes in Academic Achievement - More Pronounced for Girls?. Social Networks, 52, 251-260. More
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(2018): The Relation between Ethnic Classroom Composition and Adolescents' Ethnic Pride. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 21, 7, 997-1013. More
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(2018): The Effects of Ethnic Minority Adolescents’ Ethnic Self-Identification on Friendship Selection. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 28, 2, 379-395. More
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(2018): Young Immigrants' Host Country Identification and their Friendships with Natives: Does Relative Group Size Matter?. Social Science Research, 70, 163-175. More
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(2018): (K)eine Frage der Religion? Die Entwicklung der sozialen Integration christlicher und muslimischer Neuzuwanderer. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 47, 2, 119–133. More
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(2017): Intra- and Inter-group Friendship Choices of Christian, Muslim, and Non-religious Youth in Germany. European Sociological Review, 33, 1, 72-83. More
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(2017): Are there Differences in Ethnic Majority and Minority Adolescents' Friendship Preferences and Social Influence with Regard to their Academic Achievement?. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 20, 3, 475-498. More
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(2016): Native Friends and Host Country Identification Among Adolescent Immigrants in Germany: The Role of Ethnic Boundaries. International Migration Review, 50, 1, 163-196. More
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(2016): Disentangling the Relation between Young Immigrants' Host Country Identification and their Friendships with Natives. Social Networks, 44, 179-189. More
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(2015): The Development and Test of a Measure of Youth's Ethnic and National Identity. Methods, data, analyses - mda , 9, 1, 87-110. More
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(2015): Ethnic Segregation of Friendship Networks in School: Testing a Rational-Choice Argument of Differences in Ethnic Homophily between Classroom- and Grade-Level Networks. Social Networks, 42, 18-26. More
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(2013): Do National Identification and Interethnic Friendships Affect One Another? A Longitudinal Test with Adolescents of Turkish Origin in Germany. Social Science Research, 42, 3, 775-788. More
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(2023): Gendered Mutual Evaluations of Young Muslims and Non-Muslims in Germany. [Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA, 23/02/2023 - 25/02/2023]. More
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(2022): Beeinflusst muslimische Religiosität die Entstehung oder das Ausbleiben von Freundschaften zwischen muslimischen und nichtmuslimischen Jugendlichen?. [41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Bielefeld, 26/09/2022 - 30/09/2022]. More
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(2022): Evaluations and Friendships of Muslim Youth in Germany: The Interplay of Religion and Gender. Results from a Survey Experiment among Young Adults. [14th Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS), Florence, 26/05/2022 - 27/05/2022]. More
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(2022): Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in Social Network Analysis. [Large Scale Data and Qualitative Research, virtual, 21/10/2022 - 21/10/2022]. More
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(2021): Strong ties, strong homophily? Variation in uni- and multidimensional homophily on socio-demographic characteristics by relationship strength. [13th Annual Conference of International Network of Analytical Sociologists INAS, (virtual conference), 31/05/2021 - 01/06/2021]. More
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(2021): Strong ties, strong homophily? Variation in uni- and multidimensional homophily on socio-demographic characteristics by relationship strength. [ECSR Annual Conference 2021, (virtual conference), 07/10/2021 - 08/10/2021]. More
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(2021): Strong ties, strong homophily? Variation in uni- and multidimensional homophily on socio-demographic characteristics by relationship strength. [AS 3rd Conference. Cohesive Societies? Analytical-empirical Perspectives, (virtual conference), 29/09/2021 - 01/10/2021]. More
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(2020): Religious Friendship Segregation in German Schools: Bright Boundaries Everywhere or Contingent on Local Religious Composition?. [43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), (virtual conference), 14/07/2020 - 16/07/2020]. More
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(2020): Gendered Religious Friendship Segregation. [Migration, Integration, and Social Networks, (virtual conference), 30/09/2020 - 01/10/2020]. More
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(2020): Religious Friendship Segregation in German Schools: Bright Boundaries Everywhere or Contingent on Local Religious Composition?. [Content Meets Structure - Integrating Different Perspectives on Social Networks Conference, (virtual conference), 28/09/2020 - 30/09/2020]. More
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(2019): Are there age-specific gender differences in the segregation of Muslim adolescents’ friendship networks?. [4th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2019), Zurich, 09/09/2019 - 12/09/2019]. More
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(2019): Gender differences in religious segregation of adolescents’ friendship networks. [ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Frankfurt, 21/03/2019 - 23/03/2019]. More
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(2018): Interdependence of Ethnic Identities?. [2nd International CILS4EU User Conference, Utrecht, 24/01/2018 - 25/01/2018]. More
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(2018): What Factors Best Explain Adolescent European Muslims National Identification?. [25th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, IL, 28/03/2018 - 30/03/2018]. More
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(2018): Wenn Y einen Einfluss auf X hat: Eine Simulationsstudie zum Umgang mit umgekehrter Kausalität mit Paneldaten. [Gemeinsame Frühjahrstagung der Sektionen Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung und Modellbildung und Simulation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Leipzig, 23/03/2018 - 24/03/2018]. More
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(2018): (K)eine Frage der Religion? Die Entwicklung der sozialen Integration christlicher und muslimischer Neuzuwanderer. [39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Göttingen, 24/09/2018 - 28/09/2018]. More
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(2018): Religion, Religiosity, and Friendships between Muslim and Non-Muslim Youth. [EASP Group Meeting “Introducing Structure: Networks in Social Psychology”, Brussels, 31/10/2018 - 03/11/2018]. More
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(2017): Adolescents. Ethnic Self- Identification and the Formation of Interethnic Friendships. [10th Annual Meeting of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists, University of Oslo, 08/06/2017 - 09/06/2017]. More
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(2017): The Effects of Ethnic Minority Adolescents' Ethnic Self-Identification on Friendship Selection. [18th General Meeting of The European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, 05/07/2017 - 08/07/2017]. More
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(2017): The Effects of Ethnic Self-Identification on Friendships among Ethnic Majority and Minority Adolescents. [EASP-SPSSI Joint Meeting. "To be both (and more)": Immigration and identity multiplicity, Utrecht, 15/09/2017 - 17/09/2017]. More
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(2017): What Drives Ethnic Homophily? How Ethnic Identification Moderates Ingroup Preferences. [3rd European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN2017), Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, 26/09/2017 - 29/09/2017]. More
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(2017): What Drives Ethnic Homophily?. [Forschungskolloquium Soziologie, University of Bern, 04/11/2017 - 04/11/2017]. More
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(2017): Friendship Networks and Group Identities. [Seminar at the Institute of Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, 26/10/2017 - 26/10/2017]. More
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(2017): Der Einfluss ethnischer Selbst-Zuschreibungen auf Freundschaftswahlen von Jugendlichen in ethnisch diversen Schulen. [5. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung "Durch Bildung gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen meistern", Heidelberg, 13/03/2017 - 15/03/2017]. More
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(2017): The Effects of Ethnic Minority Adolescents’ Ethnic Self-Identification on Friendship Selection. [RC28 Spring Meeting 2017, Köln, 30/03/2017 - 01/04/2017]. More
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(2017): Kausale Inferenz mit Paneldaten. Eine Simulationsstudie zur Modellierung umgekehrter Kausalität. [Herbsttagung der Sektion Modellbildung und Simulation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, TU Kaiserslautern, 13/10/2017 - 14/10/2017]. More
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(2016): Measuring Homophily in Social Networks: How (not) to proceed using Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models for Network Change. [Advanced Siena Users Meeting, ETH, Zürich, 19/02/2016 - 20/02/2016]. More
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(2016): Are Friendship Choices of Immigrants and Natives Affected by Immigrants’ Host Country Identification? The Role of Relative Group Size. [9th Annual Meeting of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists, Utrecht University, 03/06/2016 - 04/06/2016]. More
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(2016): Does Ethnic Classroom Composition Affect Identity-Based Friendship Choices of Immigrant and Native Adolescents?. [Social Interaction and Society (SIS 2016): Perspectives of Modern Sociological Science, ETH Zürich, 26/05/2016 - 28/05/2016]. More
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(2016): Achievement Similarity Among Friends: Selection and Influence Processes. [XXXVI Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Newport Beach, CA, 05/04/2016 - 10/04/2016]. More
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(2016): National Identification among Muslims in Europe: How (Un)important is Religiosity?. [Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), University of Warsaw, Poland, 13/07/2016 - 16/07/2016]. More
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(2016): More Compatible or More Conflicting? A Longitudinal Approach to the Patterns of Ethnic, Religious, and National Identity among Minority Youth in Germany. [Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), University of Warsaw, Poland, 13/07/2016 - 16/07/2016]. More
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(2016): Henne oder Ei? Paneldaten und das Problem umgekehrter Kausalität. [38. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Universität Bamberg, 26/09/2016 - 30/09/2016]. More
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(2016): Intra- and Inter-group Friendship Choices of Christian, Muslim and Nonreligious Adolescents in Germany. [Immigration and Integration in Cross-National Comparison, MZES, Mannheim, 17/11/2016 - 18/11/2016]. More
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(2016): Are Friendship Choices of Immigrant and Native Adolescents Affected by Immigrants' Host Country Identification? The Role of Relative Group Size. [Seminar Rational Choice Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications, Venice International University, San Servolo, 21/11/2016 - 24/11/2016]. More
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(2016): National Identification among Muslim Adolescents in Europe: How (Un)Important Is Religiosity?. [1st International CILS4EU User Conference, MZES, Mannheim, 01/12/2016 - 02/12/2016]. More
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(2016): The effects of ethnic minority children's ethnic self-categorization on friendship selection in multi-ethnic schools. [Talk at the Dept. of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 26/05/2016 - 26/05/2016]. More
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(2016): Intra- and Inter-group Friendship Choices of Christian, Muslim and Nonreligious Adolescents in Germany. [ECSR 2016 Conference, University of Oxford, 22/09/2016 - 24/09/2016]. More
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(2015): Can Panel Data Resolve Questions of Causal Ordering–and If So, How?. [6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Reykjavik, 13/07/2015 - 17/07/2015]. More
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(2015): Ethnic Friendship Segregation in School. [6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Reykjavik, 13/07/2015 - 17/07/2015]. More
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(2015): Ethnic Segregation of Friendship Networks in School: Testing a Rational-Choice Argument of Differences in Ethnic Homophily between Classroom- and Grade-Level Networks. [Workshop "The science of choice - How to model the decision-making process?", Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, 28/10/2015 - 30/10/2015]. More
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(2015): Ethnic Segregation of Friendship Networks in School. [8th Annual Meeting of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 12/06/2015 - 13/06/2015]. More
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(2015): Ethnic Segregation of Friendship Networks in School: Testing a Rational Choice Argument of Differences in Ethnic Homophily between Classroom- and Grade-Level Networks. [Frühjahrstagung der DGS-Sektion "Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung'', Universität Bremen, 27/03/2015 - 28/03/2015]. More
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(2015): The Co-Evolution of Friendship Networks and Host Country Identification of Young Immigrants. [Herbsttagung der DGS-Sektion “Modellbildung und Simulation” , Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 01/10/2015 - 02/10/2015]. More
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(2014): Ethnic Friendship Segregation in School: Testing a Rational-Choice Argument of Differences between Class- and Grade-Level Networks. [1st Annual BAGSS Conference: Migration and Integration, University of Bamberg, 14/07/2014 - 15/07/2014]. More
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(2013): Group Differences in the Effect of Native Friends on National Identification of Adolescent Immigrants in Germany. [Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers, London, 10/04/2013 - 13/04/2013]. More
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(2013): Disentangling the Relationship between Young Immigrants' National Identification and their Friendships with Natives. [10th International Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2013), University of Zurich, 27/08/2013 - 30/08/2013]. More
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(2012): Do National Identity and Interethnic Friendships Affect One Another?. [I.N.T.E.G.R.A.T.I.O.N. 2.0 - Institutional and Life-Course Perspectives on Migration, Bremen, 23/02/2012 - 25/02/2012]. More
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(2012): Ethnic Network Composition and National Identification of Young Immigrants in Germany. [ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic change, Quality of life and Social cohesion, Stockholm, 24/09/2012 - 26/09/2012]. More
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(2012): Intergenerationaler Wandel ethnischer Identifikationen? Die Bedeutung der sozialen Einbettung von Migranten. [Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. 36. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Bochum, 02/10/2012 - 02/10/2012]. More
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(2012): Intergenerationaler Wandel nationaler Identität? Die Rolle elterlicher Identität für die nationale Identität ihrer Kinder. [Intergenerationale Transmissionsprozesse in Migrantenfamilien, Wien, 04/12/2012 - 04/12/2012]. More
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(2011): The Causal Interplay between Ethnic Identification and Friendship Networks of Turkish Youths in Germany. [European Consortium for Sociological Research 20th Anniversary: European Society or Societies? A 20-Year Perspective, European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), Dublin, 15/12/2011 - 17/12/2011]. More
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(2020): Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Segregation in Youth’s Friendship Networks: Opportunities and Challenges for Research. 233-248. London, Routledge. More
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(2020): Soziale Integration: Interethnische Freund- und Partnerschaften und ihre Determinanten. 1-14. Wiesbaden, Springer VS. More
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(2017): The Virtue of High Performance Computing for the Statistical Analysis of Social Networks. 45-48. Heidelberg, heiBOOKS. More
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(2023): Dokumentation der Primärdatenerhebung in Form von Gruppendiskussionen im Rahmen des Projekts „Religion, Religiosität und die sozial-identifikative Integration muslimischer Jugendlicher“. 36. Mannheim, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung. More
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(2023): Dokumentation der Primärdatenerhebung in Form eines Online-Surveyexperiments im Rahmen des Projekts „Religion, Religiosität und die sozial-identifikative Integration muslimischer Jugendlicher“. 79. Mannheim, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung. More
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(2014): Ethnische und nationale Identität von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Mannheim, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. More
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(2016): Collecting Network Panel Data in Schools: Practical Guidance Based on the Experiences of Three German Research Projects. 166, 18. Mannheim, MZES. More
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(2015): Friendship and identity in school: Field report on Wave 1, Wave 2, and Wave 3 (Technical Report). 161, Mannheim, MZES. More
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(2014): Die Messung ethnischer und nationaler Identität von Kindern und Jugendlichen. 155, 36. Mannheim, MZES. More
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(2014): Freundschaft und Identität in der Schule: Feldbericht zu Welle 1 und Welle 2 (Technical Report). 157, Mannheim, MZES. More
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(2016): Tell Me Who Your Friends Are? Disentangling the Interplay of Young Immigrants’ Host Country Identification and Their Friendships with Natives. Mannheim, University of Mannheim. More