William Foley

William Foley
National Distance Education University | UNED · Department of Sociology II (Social Structure)

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We examine the association between parenting practices (discipline and support) and children’s cognitive effort. Cognitive effort is hard to measure; hence, little is known about effort dispositions, and how parenting practices affect effort. We analyse data from 1,148 fifth-grade students from Berlin and Madrid (around 11 years of age). Cognitive...
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Why do economically disadvantaged people often regard inequality as fair? The literature on deliberative justice suggests that people regard inequality as fair when it is proportional to inequality in effort or other inputs-i.e. when it is meritocratic. But in the real-world there is substantial uncertainty over the distribution of income and merit...
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Lower class students are less likely to attend university than their higher class counterparts, even adjusting for academic performance. I argue this is due to “status beliefs” – widely-held views that high status individuals (e.g. men, ethnic majorities, higher class) are generally more competent than low status individuals (e.g. women, ethnic min...
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Purpose This paper establishes an association between income and the likelihood of seeking medical treatment for Covid-19 symptoms in some countries. We provide an explanation for this income effect based on the stringency of government response to the pandemic and the unequal distribution of agency among social classes. Design/methodology/approac...

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