Linus Westheuser

Linus Westheuser
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | HU Berlin

Doctor of Philosophy

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Education
October 2014 - July 2016
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Field of study
  • Sociology and Political Science

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Publications (8)
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This contribution links the study of populism as a stylistic repertoire with Bourdieusian class analysis. The starting point is Ostiguy and Moffitt's observation that the populist repertoire draws on symbols of the 'sociocultural low' and 'the popular' produced in non-political fields like food and leisure. Borrowing from Lévi-Strauss and Bourdieu,...
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Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag nimmt eine Kartierung der alltäglichen Gesellschaftskritik vor, die deutsche ProduktionsarbeiterInnen in informellen Interviewsettings äußern. Er rekonstruiert sieben typische Repertoires der Arbeiterkritik entlang der Gerechtigkeitsdimensionen ökonomischer Umverteilung, symbolischer Anerkennung und politischer Repräsent...
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Die politische Polarisierung der deutschen Gesellschaft ist in aller Munde. Dabei klafft der vielleicht größte Spalt zwischen Diskurs und empirischer Befundlage. Zentrale Elemente des Polarisierungsdiskurses sind nicht von dem Bild gedeckt, dass die empirische Sozialforschung von der deutschen Gesellschaft zeichnet. Eine Sammelrezension.
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How cleavages are structured on the level of identities is a central but neglected part of cleavage theory. The contribution theorizes the identity level of cleavages and makes the case for studies of symbolic and moral boundary making to complement existing research. A first part presents a definition of the sociocultural element of cleavages as a...
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Across Western societies, issues like migration and social liberalization are shown to constitute a ‘second dimension’ perpendicular to redistributive conflict. Influential diagnoses contend that this dimension reflects not only ideological disagreement but a deep-running antagonism on the level of social identities. This is important because it wo...
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Class conscious approaches are making a comeback in the study of social movements and Nils Kumkar’s new book is an ambitious and thought-provoking addition to this literature. Kumkar shows how the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest movements were shaped by the class-specific ways in which their core constituencies experienced the financ...
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Zusammenfassung Stefan Hirschauers Konzept des undoing gender erhebt den Anspruch, durch den systematischen Einbezug der Inaktivierung von Geschlecht die Annahmen der ethnomethodologischen Geschlechtersoziologie zu komplementieren und zu radikalisieren. Der Artikel rekonstruiert diesen Ansatz im Licht der soziologischen Praxeologie und konfrontiert...

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