Franziska Wiest

@franziskawiest.bsky.social

Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Interested in family, wealth and social inequality in contemporary societies. Passionate about qualitative research methods and methodologies

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource. @bupjournals.bsky.social

Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families

Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...

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🚨New paper with @swallaschek.bsky.social on media self-presentations of the super-rich 💸🗞️📺🎤💰. We analyse media interviews and find that they equate business with family success and tie past, present, and future into one seamless narrative. See more below 👇👇👇

Stefan Wallaschek@swallaschek.bsky.social · last yr.

Together with @norawaitkus.bsky.social, I have a new paper on the question: How do Germany’s super-rich talk about being 💰💰💰? By analyzig media interviews, we show that they blend business with family success and tie past, present, and future into one seamless narrative. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

This sounds super interesting! I will apply, who else?

ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research@isi-munich.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us for the first ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE in Munich, October 9-11 2025 CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates... Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28. Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)

Große Freude, dass die eigene Arbeit auch für Nachbarfächer interessant ist: Für die Soziologie bietet D. viele Anknüpfungspunkte, die Relation aus Staat, Wirtschaft u. Familie neu zu denken. Was er empirisch zeigt, bedarf einer weiteren theor. Auseinandersetzung. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Erb- und Eigentumsordnungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

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