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Dr Nora Waitkus

Dr Nora Waitkus

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow

International Inequalities Institute

Email
N.M.Waitkus@lse.ac.uk
Room No
CBG 4.10
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Languages
English, French, German
Key Expertise
Wealth, Class, Housing, Elites, Social Stratification, Comparative Analysis

About me

Nora Waitkus is a Professor of Sociology at the Max Weber Institute at Heidelberg University and an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. She is interested in socio-economic stratification in contemporary capitalist societies and the institutional drivers of wealth inequality and concentration, as well as themes around class, housing, elites, public opinion, and wealth accumulation. Nora’s work has been published in American Sociological Review, Sociology, Socius, Feminist Economics, among others.

Expertise Details

Inequality; Socio-economic stratification

Publications

Waitkus, Nora, Mike Savage and Maren Toft (2024). “Wealth and Class Analysis: Exploitation, Closure and Exclusion” Sociology.

Schechtl , Manuel and Nora Waitkus (2024). “Where Income becomes Wealth: How Redistribution moderates the Association between Income and Wealth” Socius, 10: 1-13.

Waitkus, Nora  (2023). Ungleicher Besitz. Perspektiven einer klassensoziologischen Untersuchung von Vermögen. Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 33(1), 99-135.

Lierse, Hanna, Patrick Sachweh and Nora Waitkus (ed.) (2022).“Wealth, Inequality and Redistribution in Capitalist Societies” Social Justice Research, 35(4): 367-378.

Waitkus, Nora and Stefan Wallaschek (2022). “Wealthy Business Owners and the Legitimization of Inequality in the Press” Social Justice Research, 35(4): 404-435.

Waitkus, Nora, and Lara Minkus. 2021. "Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap across Occupational Classes." Feminist Economics, 27(4): 114-47.

Pfeffer, Fabian T. and Nora Waitkus. “The Wealth Inequality of Nations” American Sociological Review, 84(4): 567–602.

Savage, Mike and Nora Waitkus (2021). “Property, wealth, and social change: Piketty as a social science engineer” British Journal of Sociology, 72: 39–51.

Pfeffer, Fabian and Nora Waitkus (2021). “Comparing Child Wealth Inequality across Countries” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 7(3): 28–49.

Waitkus, Nora and Olaf Groh-Samberg (2019). “The Space of Economic and Cultural Capital: A Latent Class Analysis for Germany. Blasius, J. et al. (ed.): Empirical Investigations of Social Space. Springer: 81-97.

Waitkus, Nora and Olaf Groh-Samberg (2018). “Beyond Meritocracy: Wealth Accumulation in the German Upper Classes.” Korsnes, O. et al. (ed.): New Directions in Elite Studies. Routledge: 198-220.

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