The Social Meaning of Inherited Financial Assets. Moral Ambivalences of Intergenerational Transfers

What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape their conduct? Based on grounded theory methodology and twenty open, thematically structured interviews with US heirs, future heirs and testators, this article explicates a theoretical account that proposes a m...

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Main Author: Merlin Schaeffer
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FQS 2013-11-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1940