Cultural Capital - Prof. Dr. Anja Weiß

Prof. Dr. Anja Weiß (M.A in psychology, Ph.D. in sociology) is junior professor for sociology with emphasis on macrosociology and transnational processes at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

She received her Dr. phil. at the Humboldt University Berlin (supervisors: Klaus Eder and Birgit Rommelspacher) on Racist effects among anti-racist group. A structuralist approach to social inequality (Wiesbaden: 2001). From 1999 to 2002 she did research in the project Pioneers of mobility in the Collaborative Research Center Reflexive Modernization. After 2002 she headed the project Highly skilled migrants. The transnationalization of social inequality funded by the German Research Association and then headed the international study group Cultural Capital during migration together with Arnd-Michael Nohl, Karin Schittenhelm and Oliver Schmidtke.

Currently she is working on a transnational theory of social inequality, migration of the highly educated, racism and ethnic conflict. Publications include: Transnationalisierung Sozialer Ungleichheit (ed. with Peter Berger) Wiesbaden 2008; Comparative research on highly skilled migrants. (In what way) Can qualitative interviews be used in order to reconstruct a class position? In Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 7/3 2006; The racism of globalization in: The globalization of racism (ed. by Macedo and Gounari) Boulder, London 2006; The transnationalization of social inequality. Conceptualizing social positions on a world scale in: Current Sociology 53/4 2