William Foley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4268865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Foley |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Foley |
| SIGNATURE | FOLEY W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5179-1020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1907 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between inclusion and disconnection
Over the past three decades, unions have played a critical role in advancing the rights and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and other equity-seeking groups within and outside of unions. Accordingly, most unions in industrialized countries have institutionalized equity internally and through external campaigns, often delivered by union centrals. Scholarship about these initiatives has been largely celebrat…
Luck and Predictability in the Life Course
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to be unpredictable and unexpected life events to be a likely cause. A third literature of causal event studies provides thousands of point estimates of the life course consequences of random events. This review brings these literatures together under …
The Social Origins of Effort
Cognitive effort (i.e., the mobilization of mental resources for task performance) is essential to equality of opportunity and meritocracy because it epitomizes individual agency. However, sociological theories of social inequality in effort are scarce and partial, and available empirical measures of effort are unreliable and lack validity. We fill this lacuna by (1) elaborating a theoretical account of how socioeconomic status (SES) affects chil…
Choice homophily on social origin and race
Parenting Practices and Children’s Cognitive Effort
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 effort is measured with tests of executive function, carried out under two reward schemes: an unince…
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy
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 - so what compels disadvantaged people to legitimate their own disadvantage? This paper suggests …
Status beliefs negatively affect expected university attainment of lower class students
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 minorities, lower class). Lower class students are therefore attributed, and internalise, lower expecte…
Hands-off? Laissez-faire policies on Covid-19 may exacerbate health inequalities
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/approach The paper makes use of data from the Six-Country Survey on Covid-19 to establish the existence of a…
Universal constraints and local conditions in Pidginization
This paper looks at the processes involved in the genesis of three pidgins of New Guinea. I will argue that the main principle at work in the formation of the morphosyntax of pidgins is a general human capacity for language simplification, but that these processes of simplification are subject both to the effects of specific linguistic features in the local multilingual contact situation that gives rise to the pidgin and to constraints resulting …
Nonprofit Health Care Organizations and the Public Trust
Semantic parameters and the unaccusative split in the Austronesian language family
A fundamental issue facing all models of grammar is the mapping problem: how to link the semantic arguments defined by the lexical verb in a clause to their formal realizations in morphosyntax. This paper investigates this problem across a range of intransitive verb types, often grouped into unergative and unaccusative classes. It demonstrates that the criteria which determine this split vary across the Austronesian languages investigated, but th…
Toward a Universal Typology of the Noun Phrase
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Bond Salesmanship
The Organization and Management of a Bond House
Bond house is the name used to denominate a partnership or corporation formed or organized to buy and sell evidences of municipal or corporation debt.All bond houses are also banking houses in that they advance money to municipalities and public cor- porations, and their business is distinguished chiefly from other banking in that they do not transact commercial business.In this country the name bond house, by custom, has come to apply to those h…
Status beliefs negatively affect expected university attainment of lower class students
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 minorities, lower class). Lower class students are therefore attributed, and internalise, lower expecte…
The Social Origins of Effort
Cognitive effort (i.e., the mobilization of mental resources for task performance) is essential to equality of opportunity and meritocracy because it epitomizes individual agency. However, sociological theories of social inequality in effort are scarce and partial, and available empirical measures of effort are unreliable and lack validity. We fill this lacuna by (1) elaborating a theoretical account of how socioeconomic status (SES) affects chil…
Parenting Practices and Children’s Cognitive Effort
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 effort is measured with tests of executive function, carried out under two reward schemes: an unince…
Hands-off? Laissez-faire policies on Covid-19 may exacerbate health inequalities
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/approach The paper makes use of data from the Six-Country Survey on Covid-19 to establish the existence of a…
Bond Salesmanship
The Organization and Management of a Bond House
Bond house is the name used to denominate a partnership or corporation formed or organized to buy and sell evidences of municipal or corporation debt.All bond houses are also banking houses in that they advance money to municipalities and public cor- porations, and their business is distinguished chiefly from other banking in that they do not transact commercial business.In this country the name bond house, by custom, has come to apply to those h…
Toward a Universal Typology of the Noun Phrase
Preview this article: Toward a Universal Typology of the Noun Phrase, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sl.4.2.02fol-1.gif
Semantic parameters and the unaccusative split in the Austronesian language family
A fundamental issue facing all models of grammar is the mapping problem: how to link the semantic arguments defined by the lexical verb in a clause to their formal realizations in morphosyntax. This paper investigates this problem across a range of intransitive verb types, often grouped into unergative and unaccusative classes. It demonstrates that the criteria which determine this split vary across the Austronesian languages investigated, but th…
Universal constraints and local conditions in Pidginization
This paper looks at the processes involved in the genesis of three pidgins of New Guinea. I will argue that the main principle at work in the formation of the morphosyntax of pidgins is a general human capacity for language simplification, but that these processes of simplification are subject both to the effects of specific linguistic features in the local multilingual contact situation that gives rise to the pidgin and to constraints resulting …
Nonprofit Health Care Organizations and the Public Trust
Hands-off? Laissez-faire policies on Covid-19 may exacerbate health inequalities
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/approach The paper makes use of data from the Six-Country Survey on Covid-19 to establish the existence of a…
Status beliefs negatively affect expected university attainment of lower class students
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 minorities, lower class). Lower class students are therefore attributed, and internalise, lower expecte…
Parenting Practices and Children’s Cognitive Effort
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 effort is measured with tests of executive function, carried out under two reward schemes: an unince…
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy
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 - so what compels disadvantaged people to legitimate their own disadvantage? This paper suggests …
Choice homophily on social origin and race
Between inclusion and disconnection
Over the past three decades, unions have played a critical role in advancing the rights and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and other equity-seeking groups within and outside of unions. Accordingly, most unions in industrialized countries have institutionalized equity internally and through external campaigns, often delivered by union centrals. Scholarship about these initiatives has been largely celebrat…
Luck and Predictability in the Life Course
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to be unpredictable and unexpected life events to be a likely cause. A third literature of causal event studies provides thousands of point estimates of the life course consequences of random events. This review brings these literatures together under …
The Social Origins of Effort
Cognitive effort (i.e., the mobilization of mental resources for task performance) is essential to equality of opportunity and meritocracy because it epitomizes individual agency. However, sociological theories of social inequality in effort are scarce and partial, and available empirical measures of effort are unreliable and lack validity. We fill this lacuna by (1) elaborating a theoretical account of how socioeconomic status (SES) affects chil…
Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (3 works) · Inequality (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)