TY  - UNPD
A1  - Hofstätter, Lukas
A1  - Hohmann, Marco
A1  - Neckel, Sighard
A1  - Petzold, Conny
T1  - Researching the Global Financial Class : findings from Frankfurt and Sydney ; paper presented to the Third ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna (Austria), July 12, 2016
T2  - Global Financial Class Working Paper Series, Nr. 4
N2  - This working paper gives insights on a theoretical perspective on class formation in the context of global financial markets and presents first empirical findings regarding the formation of a global financial class. It draws on numerous encounters with financial professionals that were inter- viewed in Frankfurt (Germany) and Sydney (Australia). As a preliminary conclusion from those inves- tigations on a micro-perspective, we state that acting on the market creates a sense of global socia- bility, whereby organizations only play a secondary role. Careers in finance follow internationally homogenized pathways. This process of global class formation is taking place prominently in global financial centers. Therefore we link the level of investigation on a micro-perspective (experience of financial professionals) with global city life and the fabric of the city. This results in empirical findings on a meso-level from an ethnography of the social and professional urban environment of finance in the two global cities. Symbolic struggles engraved in the built environment of Frankfurt and Sydney are traced and discussed against the background of every-day-practices of aspiration in the financial districts investigated.
T3  - Global Financial Class Working Paper Series - 4 
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Finance
KW  - Pierre Bourdieu
KW  - Symbolic Power
KW  - Transnational Capitalist Class
KW  - Global Financial Class
KW  - Global City
KW  - Aspiration
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44443
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-444435
SN  - 2365-3078
PB  - Goethe University Frankfurt
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -