Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Macrosociology

Dr. Linus Westheuser

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Name
Dr. Linus Westheuser
Status
Researcher
Email
linus.westheuser (at) hu-berlin.de
Institution
Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Sozialwissenschaften → Makrosoziologie
Function / Working Area
Researcher
Visiting address
Universitätsstraße 3b , Room 105
Phone number
+49 (0)30 2093-66625
Mailing address
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

I am a postdoctoral researcher collaborating with Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux on the project "New Inequalities – New Cleavages? A Political Sociology of Contemporary Societies". My work bridges political and cultural sociology, looking at the role of identity, morality, and culture in transformations of political conflict structures. Inspired by neo-Bourdieusian cultural class analysis and cleavage theory, I am interested in cultural forms that mediate between social inequalities and political divides.

I hold a PhD from Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. In my doctoral research, I mapped links between class, culture, and politics in contemporary Germany. Through Multiple Correspondence Analyses of survey data I studied how key ideological divides are rooted in social structure. Extensive in-depth interviewing allowed me to understand how diverging ideological leanings among two particularly central classes, production workers and middle class sociocultural professionals, are embedded in class-specific moral economies, social identities, and political habitus forms.

Before arriving at Humboldt, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich’s Political Science Department and a visiting researcher at the International Inequalities Institute at London School of Economics. I got both my MA and BA from Humboldt’s Social Sciences department, with visits to King’s College London and the École Normale Supérieure in Cachan.

 

Publications

In the media:

“Welches politische Bewusstsein hat die Arbeiterschaft?” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/karriere-hochschule/welches-politische-bewusstsein-hat-die-arbeiterschaft-18246819.html

Interview: “Das politische Denken von Arbeitern ist widersprüchlicher als es die Schlagzeilen glauben machen”, Kontrast Magazin https://kontrast.at/linda-beck-linus-westheuser-interview/

“Proletarier ohne Bewusstsein.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/proletarier-ohne-bewusstsein-18108922.html