Thaddeus Müller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thaddeus Müller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thaddeus |
| FAMILY NAME | Müller |
| SIGNATURE | MÜLLER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5593-6605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma , relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma . I explain that the strategic ways in which he represents himself as the author can be understood by seeing them as “tricks of the trade” used by “the stigmatized,” and more specifically a…
Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds
The qualitative literature criticizing REBs suggests that researchers should develop an approach to research ethics that does justice to their daily practice of fieldwork. In this article, I contribute to this exploration by presenting three cases of negotiating research ethics while researching transgressive social worlds. These cases are related to political tension while researching cannabis shops, privacy issues while using visual methods to …
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities
I Am an Unashamed Cityphile: Making Sense of a World of Strangers in Ann Arbor, Amsterdam, and Beyond
This article describes the social construction of Lofland's A World of Strangers (1973), which has become a seminal publication on social interactions in urban public places. I focus on her methods, research locations, references, and positionality. I will refer to my meetings with her and analyze two unpublished documents: the methodological appendix of her book and her 1966 paper 'In the Presence of Strangers.' The article shows that her book w…
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma
In this article I focus on stigma, and more specifically on territorial stigma in a Dutch suburb built in the 1970s. This publication is based on ethnographic fieldwork that lasted two and half years and which took place at the end of the 1980s. The data is reanalyzed in the light of recent developments in studies on stigma and territorial stigma, specifically how this is countered. I will use the conceptual pair-doing stigma and undoing stigma-t…
Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and 'Narrative Credibility' in Interviews on White-Collar Transgression
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top-tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career, constructed normalizing narratives using neutralization techniques. Mark was named a selfish, n…
But, I Mean, the Thing Has Become a Myth that Nobody Can Live up To.” Lou Reed’s Narrative of Transgression, Stigma, Self and Resistance
This study contributes to the criminological transgression literature with an in-depth ethnographic analysis of Reed’s narrative of transgression, stigma, self and resistance. This analysis includes two intertwined perspectives on rule breaking, 1) the transgression concept within cultural criminology and 2) deviance studies with its focus on labeling and stigma. This combination creates an academic focus that includes the empowering and disempow…
Deviant Selves, Transgressive Acts, and Moral Narratives: The Symbolic-Interactionist Field of Transgression, Crime, and Justice
This chapter on crime, transgression, and justice focuses on interactional meaning-making processes that shape the moral narratives of a range of actors such as perpetrators, police, and judges. These narratives include processes such as labeling, stigmatization, and criminalization. These processes are about (1) degrading, dominating, and excluding, and (2) their narrative counterparts, which focus on resisting the othering claims of moral narra…
Stigma, the Moral Career of a Concept: Some Notes on Emotions, Agency, Teflon Stigma, and Marginalizing Stigma
Cultural criminology and its incitement for symbolic interactionism
The strength of symbolic interactionist studies is the study of ‘small’ social worlds. Others see this strength as a weakness because, they argue, there is too much of a concern with describing and understanding the social life of ‘small’ groups, without paying sufficient attention to the wider context of power relations shaping society and larger societal transformations. Though, this is a stereotypical representation of symbolic interactionism,…
Cannabis, Moral Entrepreneurship, and Stigma: Conflicting Narratives on the 26 May 2016 Toronto Police Raid on Cannabis Shops
On May 26, 2016, the police raided 43 cannabis dispensaries in Toronto, Canada, making 90 arrests. This article aims to describe the narrative of the responsible state agencies concerning the police raid and compare it to the narrative of those who opposed it, such as activists, as well as consumers and sellers of cannabis. While such concepts as moral entrepreneur, moral panic, and moral crusade have traditionally been used to study those in pow…
Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Reflections on Methods
Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Conflict and Cooperation
The European Contribution to Symbolic Interactionism
Feeling Unsafe in a Multicultural Neighbourhood: Indigenous Inhabitants’ Perspectives
Feeling unsafe in a multicultural neighbourhood has been related—especially in the case of indigenous inhabitants—to the presence of groups of young immigrant men in public space. However, indigenous inhabitants differ in their response to the presence of immigrant men. Our goal is to examine (in a qualitative and quantitative way) whether interethnic social involvement has added value when it comes to explaining the experience of fear of crime, …
Chicago, Jazz and Marijuana: Howard Becker on Outsiders
In this article on the social production of Outsiders I will situate its making in the daily practice of the social worlds Becker was involved in. Therefore I focus on the relations, interactions and situations which were relevant for the form, content and success of Outsiders. The fragments from my email communication with Becker, the collected interviews and other publications show that Becker demystifies Outsiders. In fact my contribution here…
Habermas: An Intellectual Biography
Journal Article Habermas: An Intellectual Biography Get access Habermas: An Intellectual Biography. By Matthew G. Specter. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. xii + 263 pp. $80.00/24.95 (hardback/paperback). Tim B. Müller Tim B. Müller Hamburg Institute for Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 444–446, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerh…
Veiligheidsbeleving op een multicultureel plein - Het perspectief van autochtone bewoners
Feeling unsafe in a multicultural neighbourhood has been related – especially in the case of indigenous inhabitants – to the presence of groups (young, immigrant) of men in public space. However, indigenous inhabitants differ in their response to the presence of immigrant men. How can this be explained? In this article we give an answer to this question based on data from qualitative and quantitative research on the experience of safety of indige…
The Empire of Scrounge Meets the Warm City: Danger, Civility, Cooperation and Community among Strangers in the Urban Public World
This article offers alternative views on scrounging—looking through garbage to find valuable objects—as a disorderly activity, and on urban public life as dangerous because of disorderly people. The European micro sociological perspective on the fleeting but positive moments of urban public life, as developed in’ The Warm City’ (Müller in De warme stad: betrokkenheid bij het publieke domein. Jan van Arkel, Utrecht, 2002), is used to reread and re…
Interethnic Interactions and Perceptions of Immigrant Men in Public Space: The Experience of Community Safety by Seniors in a Multicultural Neighbourhood
The focus of this chapter is on the experience of safety by Dutch seniors in a multicultural neighbourhood and how this is shaped by their labelling of immigrant men in public space. I describe how meaning is given to immigrants in general, and more specifically, to immigrant men who hang around in public places. This research is based on ongoing interactions with 30 senior citizens (above 60 years of age) over a period of two years and shows tha…
Strong emotions at work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the emotional experiences from qualitative research can enrich organization and management studies. Design/methodology/approach The paper's approach includes a review of the literature in sociology, anthropology, psychology, and feminist studies, in which scholars have argued convincingly for the explicit need to acknowledge and utilize the emotions of researchers as they study social and or…
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma
In this article I focus on stigma, and more specifically on territorial stigma in a Dutch suburb built in the 1970s. This publication is based on ethnographic fieldwork that lasted two and half years and which took place at the end of the 1980s. The data is reanalyzed in the light of recent developments in studies on stigma and territorial stigma, specifically how this is countered. I will use the conceptual pair-doing stigma and undoing stigma-t…
Stigma, the Moral Career of a Concept: Some Notes on Emotions, Agency, Teflon Stigma, and Marginalizing Stigma
Chicago, Jazz and Marijuana: Howard Becker on Outsiders
In this article on the social production of Outsiders I will situate its making in the daily practice of the social worlds Becker was involved in. Therefore I focus on the relations, interactions and situations which were relevant for the form, content and success of Outsiders. The fragments from my email communication with Becker, the collected interviews and other publications show that Becker demystifies Outsiders. In fact my contribution here…
The Empire of Scrounge Meets the Warm City: Danger, Civility, Cooperation and Community among Strangers in the Urban Public World
This article offers alternative views on scrounging—looking through garbage to find valuable objects—as a disorderly activity, and on urban public life as dangerous because of disorderly people. The European micro sociological perspective on the fleeting but positive moments of urban public life, as developed in’ The Warm City’ (Müller in De warme stad: betrokkenheid bij het publieke domein. Jan van Arkel, Utrecht, 2002), is used to reread and re…
Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and 'Narrative Credibility' in Interviews on White-Collar Transgression
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top-tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career, constructed normalizing narratives using neutralization techniques. Mark was named a selfish, n…
Cannabis, Moral Entrepreneurship, and Stigma: Conflicting Narratives on the 26 May 2016 Toronto Police Raid on Cannabis Shops
On May 26, 2016, the police raided 43 cannabis dispensaries in Toronto, Canada, making 90 arrests. This article aims to describe the narrative of the responsible state agencies concerning the police raid and compare it to the narrative of those who opposed it, such as activists, as well as consumers and sellers of cannabis. While such concepts as moral entrepreneur, moral panic, and moral crusade have traditionally been used to study those in pow…
Feeling Unsafe in a Multicultural Neighbourhood: Indigenous Inhabitants’ Perspectives
Feeling unsafe in a multicultural neighbourhood has been related—especially in the case of indigenous inhabitants—to the presence of groups of young immigrant men in public space. However, indigenous inhabitants differ in their response to the presence of immigrant men. Our goal is to examine (in a qualitative and quantitative way) whether interethnic social involvement has added value when it comes to explaining the experience of fear of crime, …
Strong emotions at work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the emotional experiences from qualitative research can enrich organization and management studies. Design/methodology/approach The paper's approach includes a review of the literature in sociology, anthropology, psychology, and feminist studies, in which scholars have argued convincingly for the explicit need to acknowledge and utilize the emotions of researchers as they study social and or…
Interethnic Interactions and Perceptions of Immigrant Men in Public Space: The Experience of Community Safety by Seniors in a Multicultural Neighbourhood
The focus of this chapter is on the experience of safety by Dutch seniors in a multicultural neighbourhood and how this is shaped by their labelling of immigrant men in public space. I describe how meaning is given to immigrants in general, and more specifically, to immigrant men who hang around in public places. This research is based on ongoing interactions with 30 senior citizens (above 60 years of age) over a period of two years and shows tha…
Veiligheidsbeleving op een multicultureel plein - Het perspectief van autochtone bewoners
Feeling unsafe in a multicultural neighbourhood has been related – especially in the case of indigenous inhabitants – to the presence of groups (young, immigrant) of men in public space. However, indigenous inhabitants differ in their response to the presence of immigrant men. How can this be explained? In this article we give an answer to this question based on data from qualitative and quantitative research on the experience of safety of indige…
The Empire of Scrounge Meets the Warm City: Danger, Civility, Cooperation and Community among Strangers in the Urban Public World
This article offers alternative views on scrounging—looking through garbage to find valuable objects—as a disorderly activity, and on urban public life as dangerous because of disorderly people. The European micro sociological perspective on the fleeting but positive moments of urban public life, as developed in’ The Warm City’ (Müller in De warme stad: betrokkenheid bij het publieke domein. Jan van Arkel, Utrecht, 2002), is used to reread and re…
Habermas: An Intellectual Biography
Journal Article Habermas: An Intellectual Biography Get access Habermas: An Intellectual Biography. By Matthew G. Specter. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. xii + 263 pp. $80.00/24.95 (hardback/paperback). Tim B. Müller Tim B. Müller Hamburg Institute for Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 444–446, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerh…
Chicago, Jazz and Marijuana: Howard Becker on Outsiders
In this article on the social production of Outsiders I will situate its making in the daily practice of the social worlds Becker was involved in. Therefore I focus on the relations, interactions and situations which were relevant for the form, content and success of Outsiders. The fragments from my email communication with Becker, the collected interviews and other publications show that Becker demystifies Outsiders. In fact my contribution here…
Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Reflections on Methods
Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Conflict and Cooperation
The European Contribution to Symbolic Interactionism
Feeling Unsafe in a Multicultural Neighbourhood: Indigenous Inhabitants’ Perspectives
Feeling unsafe in a multicultural neighbourhood has been related—especially in the case of indigenous inhabitants—to the presence of groups of young immigrant men in public space. However, indigenous inhabitants differ in their response to the presence of immigrant men. Our goal is to examine (in a qualitative and quantitative way) whether interethnic social involvement has added value when it comes to explaining the experience of fear of crime, …
Cultural criminology and its incitement for symbolic interactionism
The strength of symbolic interactionist studies is the study of ‘small’ social worlds. Others see this strength as a weakness because, they argue, there is too much of a concern with describing and understanding the social life of ‘small’ groups, without paying sufficient attention to the wider context of power relations shaping society and larger societal transformations. Though, this is a stereotypical representation of symbolic interactionism,…
Cannabis, Moral Entrepreneurship, and Stigma: Conflicting Narratives on the 26 May 2016 Toronto Police Raid on Cannabis Shops
On May 26, 2016, the police raided 43 cannabis dispensaries in Toronto, Canada, making 90 arrests. This article aims to describe the narrative of the responsible state agencies concerning the police raid and compare it to the narrative of those who opposed it, such as activists, as well as consumers and sellers of cannabis. While such concepts as moral entrepreneur, moral panic, and moral crusade have traditionally been used to study those in pow…
Stigma, the Moral Career of a Concept: Some Notes on Emotions, Agency, Teflon Stigma, and Marginalizing Stigma
Deviant Selves, Transgressive Acts, and Moral Narratives: The Symbolic-Interactionist Field of Transgression, Crime, and Justice
This chapter on crime, transgression, and justice focuses on interactional meaning-making processes that shape the moral narratives of a range of actors such as perpetrators, police, and judges. These narratives include processes such as labeling, stigmatization, and criminalization. These processes are about (1) degrading, dominating, and excluding, and (2) their narrative counterparts, which focus on resisting the othering claims of moral narra…
But, I Mean, the Thing Has Become a Myth that Nobody Can Live up To.” Lou Reed’s Narrative of Transgression, Stigma, Self and Resistance
This study contributes to the criminological transgression literature with an in-depth ethnographic analysis of Reed’s narrative of transgression, stigma, self and resistance. This analysis includes two intertwined perspectives on rule breaking, 1) the transgression concept within cultural criminology and 2) deviance studies with its focus on labeling and stigma. This combination creates an academic focus that includes the empowering and disempow…
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma
In this article I focus on stigma, and more specifically on territorial stigma in a Dutch suburb built in the 1970s. This publication is based on ethnographic fieldwork that lasted two and half years and which took place at the end of the 1980s. The data is reanalyzed in the light of recent developments in studies on stigma and territorial stigma, specifically how this is countered. I will use the conceptual pair-doing stigma and undoing stigma-t…
Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and 'Narrative Credibility' in Interviews on White-Collar Transgression
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top-tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career, constructed normalizing narratives using neutralization techniques. Mark was named a selfish, n…
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities
I Am an Unashamed Cityphile: Making Sense of a World of Strangers in Ann Arbor, Amsterdam, and Beyond
This article describes the social construction of Lofland's A World of Strangers (1973), which has become a seminal publication on social interactions in urban public places. I focus on her methods, research locations, references, and positionality. I will refer to my meetings with her and analyze two unpublished documents: the methodological appendix of her book and her 1966 paper 'In the Presence of Strangers.' The article shows that her book w…
Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma , relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma . I explain that the strategic ways in which he represents himself as the author can be understood by seeing them as “tricks of the trade” used by “the stigmatized,” and more specifically a…
Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds
The qualitative literature criticizing REBs suggests that researchers should develop an approach to research ethics that does justice to their daily practice of fieldwork. In this article, I contribute to this exploration by presenting three cases of negotiating research ethics while researching transgressive social worlds. These cases are related to political tension while researching cannabis shops, privacy issues while using visual methods to …
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Narrative (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Ethnography (5 works)