Gender socialization as a pedagogical instrument for modeling human behavior

Gender Socialization and Identity Theory

Gender socialization is examined through a social psychological lens by applying identity theory and identity control theory. Current research from the fields of family and sociological social psychology are surveyed to provide a better conception of how the family operates as agents of socialization, and how identities that are cultivated and fostered in youth provide meaning throughout the li...

a framework for identifying and prioritizing factors affecting customers’ online shopping behavior in iran

the purpose of this study is identifying effective factors which make customers shop online in iran and investigating the importance of discovered factors in online customers’ decision. in the identifying phase, to discover the factors affecting online shopping behavior of customers in iran, the derived reference model summarizing antecedents of online shopping proposed by change et al. was us...

Gender Socialization in Toys by Parents

Pedagogical Agents as Team Members: Impact of Proactive and Pedagogical Behavior on the User

In a virtual environment for the learning of cooperative tasks, learners have to coordinate with one or more autonomous agents in order to perform a task. This coordination requires that the human and agent team members reason and dialogue about their resources, action plans, and shared actions. This article proposes a new agent architecture called PCBDI designed to generate reactive, proactive...

Gender Socialization in Chinese Kindergartens: Teachers’ Contributions

Teacher-child interactions and peer exchanges were observed once a week for 10 months in four kindergartens in Hong Kong, China. A total of 206 anecdotes/scenes considered representative of the gender-related experiences of 109 4-year-old Chinese children in these kindergartens were analyzed. Descriptive codes, generated iteratively were clustered, categorized, integrated, recoded and recategor...