Hi! I am Gonzalo, a Research Fellow at the University of Turin and a PhD Candidate in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the University of Milan.
My research focuses on understanding how people comprehend social inequality. In my doctoral dissertation, I investigate how the socioeconomic composition of individuals’ social environments influences their perceptions and beliefs about inequality. I emphasize the role of social networks and socializing institutions, such as neighborhoods, and differences based on social positions. Additionally, I am interested in exploring the structure of interrelations between different attitudes towards inequality. I am excited about the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the understanding of these complex social dynamics.
Here you can find part of my research: publications, work in progress, conferences, teaching and more.
PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research, Currently
University of Milan
MA in Sociology, 2018
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
BA in Sociology, 2014
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
This paper purports to enrich the burgeoning field of research on the content of people’s beliefs about inequality by studying the structure of these beliefs. We develop a theoretical and methodological framework that combines Correlational Class Analysis and Exploratory Graph Analysis, and we test it empirically with original survey data collected in the United States and the Netherlands (n = 2,501 and 1,618).
This paper examines people’s evaluation of distributive justice in Chile. The objective is to explore how individuals’ subjective social position affects their judgment of their own income and whether this judgment rests on a notion of merit.
This article constitutes the first application of the attitude network approach to peoples’ views on inequality. We adopt a network model in which nodes represent survey variables and edges their conditional associations. This allows us to conceptualize perceptions, beliefs, and judgments about inequality as a network of connected evaluative reactions.
A series of theories focused on self-interest have continuously established a negative link between people’s income and their support for the reduction of inequalities through redistribution. Despite this, the evidence is scarce and sometimes contradictory while its study in Latin America is almost non-existent. Using data from the LAPOP Survey between 2008 and 2018, a longitudinal dimension is considered for the first time in the measurement of Latin American redistributive preferences, using hybrid multilevel regression models.
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Beyond Borders - Decoding How Socioeconomic Diversity Shapes Views on Inequality in Today's World.
Social Relationships as Distributive Inferences - Implications of Socioeconomic Segregation of Acquaintances on People’s Attitudes Toward Inequality.
Social Segregation and Attitudes Toward Inequality - Unraveling the Influence of Socioeconomic Status and Diversity of Social Networks Across Contemporary Societies.
Breaking Boundaries - Unraveling the Impact of Socioeconomic Heterogeneity on Attitudes towards Inequality in Contemporary Societies
Modelling, estimating, simulating - formalizing attitudes towards inequality as a complex network
Experiencing heterogeneity - socioeconomic diversity in everyday interactions and attitudes towards inequality across contemporary societies (Gonzalo Franetovic). Overcoming the structuralist/individualist dichotomy - Inequality beliefs from a new network and comparative perspective (Arturo Bertero). EU solidarity in troubling times - does cultural cleavage matter? (Simona Guglielmi).
Preferences for Income Redistribution in Unequal Contexts - Changes in Latin America between 2008 and 2018
Modelling, estimating, simulating - formalizing attitudes towards inequality as a complex network
Modelling, estimating, simulating - formalizing attitudes towards inequality as a complex network
How do people understand inequality in Chile? A study of attitudes through network analysis
Overcoming the structuralist/individualist dichotomy - Inequality beliefs from a new network and comparative perspective
Preferences for redistribution, income and inequality in Latin America - an unresolved relation
Redistributive preferences in unequal contexts. Changes in Latin America between 2008 and 2014
Neoliberal policies and income concentration - a longitudinal and comparative analysis in a Latin American context
Redistributive preferences in Latin America - longitudinal and critical evidence of self-interest