Sanja Beronja
VITA
project “Infiltrates: Influence of Financial Elites: Trajectories, Socialization, Values and Repercussions of Wealth in Germany, France and the UK”. Her research examines the professional and financial aspirations of students at elite universities in these three countries who seek careers in the financial and consulting sectors.
She holds a PhD in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), completed in 2025. Her doctoral research examined the social supports underpinning the entrepreneurial capabilities of fintech startup founders in Paris and Berlin.
Her broader research interests include the sociology of elites, skilled migration, technology entrepreneurship, and the sociological analysis of capabilities and aspirations.
Mutterinstitut:
EHESS
Research
Forschungsthemen
Soziologie der Eliten, qualifizierte Migration, Technologie-Entrepreneurship sowie die soziologische Analyse von Fähigkeiten und Aspirationen
Publications
Beronja, Sanja, Flécher, Marion, Hetzel, Maud, internal coordination: Hadjimanolis, Gwladys, Rodet, Diane. 2025. Le travail entrepreneurial. Pour a sociology of entrepreneurial activity au prisme of social characteristics. Revue Française de Socio-Economie, 34(1), 23-41. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfse.034.0023 .
Hetzel, M., Beronja, S. and Flécher, M. (2025). Saisir le travail entrepreneurial par ses appuis collectifs. Revue Française de Socio-Economie, 35(2), 13-24. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfse.035.0013 .
Beronja, Sanja. 2025. “Living in a Bubble”: Labor Mobility of Tech Professionals from Serbia to Germany (2016–2022). Historical Social Research 50 (1): 93-123.
BERONJA, Sanja. Conference report: Past futures of work (I), in: H-Soz-Kult, March 19, 2022, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-127914 .
CollectiF. B. (October 8, 2019). Auto-analysis, rapport on terrain and objectivation. Biographical foisonnement. Visited on July 9, 2025 at the following link: https://doi.org/10.58079/opdx