•We re-wrote much of our verbiage that cited other studies to eliminate potential plagiarism issues.•We used quotation marks to differentiate the cited studies verbiage compared to our phrasing of ...such works.
The popular and academic press reports recent and future major decreases in accounting enrollment to the detriment to accounting faculty and the firms that hire our students. Based upon a major review of the literature and our own experiences, we discuss this matter in depth and suggest means to reverse these trends. For example, we suggest that the CPA profession stress that (1) while earning lower starting salaries, experienced accountants often earn significantly higher salaries than other business majors; and (2) accountants can more likely own equity in their employers’ businesses as compared to other, competitive business fields.
We also discuss how the (1) Generation gap’s (e.g., members of Generations X and Z) viewpoints compare to baby boomers; (2) major trends in the gig economy affect this shortage; (3) some affects of technology; and (4) need for personal growth affects this shortage—and how the profession can capitalize on these trends.
Our paper should help academe and the profession spur quality students to major in accounting and help improve the latter group attract and retain new accounting majors. After all, new, competent accounting majors form the basis for our future, if not our survival.
While left and right are the main terms to distinguish political views in Western Europe, the family socialization of citizens has mainly been studied in terms of partisan preferences rather than ...identification with these ideological blocks. Therefore, this study investigates the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideological positions in two European multiparty systems. To investigate expectations regarding gendered patterns in political socialization, ideological transmission between mothers, fathers, daughters and sons are analyzed, making use of German and Swiss household data. The results underline the relevance of the family in the transmission of political ideology in multiparty systems, showing high contemporary parent–child concordance in ideological positioning in line with classic work in political socialization. Moreover, the study demonstrates how the gender‐generation gap in political ideology is consequential for this process. Young women consistently place themselves on the left of men across all combinations of parental ideology, which indicates that the gender‐generation gap trumps other gendered patterns in intergenerational transmission. Consequently, daughters are less likely than sons to take over their parents’ rightist positions, while parent–son transmission is equally large on the left and the right. This also means that left‐leaning parents have a general advantage over right‐leaning parents in having their ideological identification reproduced by their daughters. The study highlights the importance of differentiating between the transmission of left‐ and right‐wing ideology in political socialization processes. Moreover, it demonstrates that the distinction by offspring gender is imperative when studying the intergenerational transmission of traits that display gender differences within and between parental and offspring generations. The findings point at the active role of especially female offspring in the political socialization process, as they seem to be more strongly impacted by influences outside the family that sustain generational processes of further gender realignment.
A smartphone is a device which offers advanced technologies, functions similarly to a computer, supports multitasking and makes it easy to remain connected with others. The following survey design ...research examined the usage patterns of smartphone users across different demographics. The results of this study provide insights into the prevalence of respondents’ usage of smartphones and their habits and behavior related to smartphone use itself especially among the younger generation of social disorders such as nomophobia and phubbing. In addition to documenting the experience of smartphone users, the research also examines personality patterns related to smartphone usage, the trends of different age groups, and the effects of gender preferences.
•We investigate behavioral patterns and impacts of smartphone usage.•We discuss personal challenges of mental disorder due to smartphone's addiction.•Smartphone's addiction habit is leaning more towards the younger generation.•Gender is considered to be statistically significant in term of smartphone's habit.•A positive relationship between accessing the internet and messaging activity.
•Looking at IoT adoption in eHealth from consumer perspective is crucial.•The study provides two categories of consumers: IoT Natives and IoT Immigrants.•Financial Cost and Perceived Risk are key ...factors to better understand the IoT for e-Health adoption.•Perceived Risk has no impact on the IoT Natives. The IoT Immigrants are more likely to consider the Perceived Risk•Providers have to customize the medical devices to meet the needs of IoT Natives and IoT Immigrants.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a modern disruptive technological approach that connects devices and people in a smart way at any time and at any place. The development of IoT is forecast to generate high economic value, improve efficiency of enterprises’ operational processes, and benefit the personal and professional lives of its end users. This new model of human–technology interaction is under-researched, especially with regard to eHealth. The current study aims to close this research gap by investigating IoT adoption in eHealthcare from the customer perspective and by including financial cost in the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework. The model is validated based on data collected from a randomly selected sample of 268 potential users of IoT-based healthcare devices in France. Structural modeling reveals that the cost of using IoT in eHealthcare is the key barrier to IoT adoption. Age is a significant mediator of customers’ intention to use IoT in eHealthcare and inspires the formulation of two new categories: IoT natives and IoT immigrants. The findings have practical application for IoT developers, policymakers, and potentially for marketers.
Social media provide novel opportunities for street gangs to operate beyond their traditional borders to sell drugs, recruit members and control their territory, virtually and physically. Although ...social media have contributed to the means available to street gangs today, it does not mean that every gang agrees on their use. Drawing on different perspectives (ex-gang members, law enforcement) on gangs using a multi-method design in a London borough, the current study shows that social media have polarized gangs, resulting in two distinct types of digital adaptation. The proposed division of ‘digitalist’ and ‘traditionalist’ gangs is rooted in Thrasher’s (1927) dictum that no two gangs are alike and explains how some gangs prefer to keep a low profile, thus, avoiding social media use. ‘Digitalists’, by contrast, prefer to use social media as a way to gain reputation and territorial expansion. They use it to brand themselves and to appear attractive for recruits and customers alike. These differences can be theoretically explained firstly as a generational gap, meaning that younger gang members prefer the use of social media; and secondly, by how well established a gang already is, as newer gangs need more attention to establish themselves.
•An empirical study on how social media have affected gangs, from the perspective of five distinct types of participants.•Digital technology divided gangs into ‘traditionalists’ who consciously abstain and ‘digitalists’ who fully engage.•Gang evolution matters: While established gangs choose aA a ‘traditionalist’ approach, newer gangs become ‘digitalists’.•Generation gap matters: Established older members gain less from social media attention than younger counterparts.•Younger members are more at home in the digital world than older gang members.
The idea that a new generation of students is entering the education system has excited recent attention among educators and education commentators. Termed 'digital natives' or the 'Net generation', ...these young people are said to have been immersed in technology all their lives, imbuing them with sophisticated technical skills and learning preferences for which traditional education is unprepared. Grand claims are being made about the nature of this generational change and about the urgent necessity for educational reform in response. A sense of impending crisis pervades this debate. However, the actual situation is far from clear. In this article, the authors draw on the fields of education and sociology to analyse the digital natives debate. The article presents and questions the main claims made about digital natives and analyses the nature of the debate itself. The authors argue that rather than being empirically and theoretically informed, the debate can be likened to an academic form of a 'moral panic'. The authors propose that a more measured and disinterested approach is now required to investigate 'digital natives' and their implications for education. Author abstract
The aim of this article is to characterise Russian youth living in a country which has been at war with neighbouring Ukraine since 24 February 2022. Considering the difficulty of directly reaching ...the target group, a non-invasive research method was applied, namely, secondary data analysis. The analyses included representative survey studies conducted among the Russian society by the main research centres: Levada-Center, VCIOM, Russian Field. Based on the conducted analyses, it may be asserted that in terms of religion, attitudes towards sexual minorities, views on the West, using the Internet for obtaining information, and mental health, Russian youth are significantly different from the older generation, and their attitudes align with global trends set by the iGen. Positive evaluations of Putin’s rule and the country’s situation, support for Russia’s involvement in the war in Ukraine, and negative attitudes towards Ukrainians are almost identical to those of the older generation. Russian youth adopt a conformist strategy towards the system, and will continue the direction of the country’s development in line with government directives.
In China, involution, which means pressure to out-compete other group members, has attracted public attention on Weibo. The new online connotation of involution empowered group cohesion among youth. ...Dissimilar to other crises, this crise also closely relates to group cohesion concept. However, few previous group cohesion-related studies focus on this critical concept. This study explains why and how youth created group cohesion online when facing involution. First, by examining the relationship between involution and group cohesion. Second, by examining whether youth are united in the online discussion of involution by investigating the generational gap. Following this, this study analyzes the different opinions to identify why this group cohesion occurs, how youth think about involution, and why they regard "older adults" as others. Lastly, this study analyzes how youth use hashtags to attract more youth to voice their opinions, consequently leading to greater group cohesion.
By combining frontier computational methods with causation and axial coding, this study proposes a new way to in-depth analyze group cohesion on social media.
The results indicate that involution triggers poor online group cohesion, and online involution-related hot issues trigger identity-based group cohesion. Additionally, youth are significantly more negative than older adults, and their expressions are full of identity-based construction. By stressing the social roots and blaming the "other" (older adult group), youth united together online. These findings indicated that a generation gap does indeed exist and that youth unite on social media by posting related hashtags via "revealing social identity" and "positioning and becoming" strategies.
The findings stress that involution is related to poor group cohesion and that social media offers a new way to face the involution crisis. Youth will use hashtags to unite and blame imagined enemies, such as older adults and the upper class. These findings might assist in understanding interventions that lead to more group cohesion.
•Three types of online video platform engagement are comprehensively investigated.•Social capital was only significant mediator for “sharing” engagement in online video platforms.•Perceived social ...capital of online video platforms was significant mediator for sharing engagement only for the Generation X and not for the Millennials.•Social values of the online video platforms might not be as important to the Millennials’ sharing video contents.
User engagements in video platforms are considered critical for not only businesses in measuring attention, but also for understanding social, cultural dynamics of a form of information platform that has increasingly become influential. For instance, different generations may perceive and engage in online video platforms differently. This study investigates various factors influencing online video platform user engagements in the forms of showing empathy (e.g., “like”), commenting, and sharing. In addition to traditional motivational factors informed by the uses and gratification theory, the study explores how perception of video platforms as social platforms play a mediating role and whether such effects are moderated by generation. A moderated mediation model positing mediating role of social capital and moderating role of generational difference tested against the three types of engagement. Results indicate intriguing generational effect between the Generation X and the Millennials on social capital’s role in online video platform engagement.
Social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) are foundational constructs in intergroup relations, yet their development across the lifespan is poorly understood. The few ...studies on the topic demonstrate that age positively correlates with both SDO and RWA. However, it is unclear whether this association is due to (a) normative aging, (b) generational differences associated with the period in which one was born and raised, or (c) a combination of these processes. This study estimates a series of cohort-sequential latent growth models to examine change due to both aging and cohort effects using 11 annual waves of longitudinal panel data collected from a nationwide random sample of adults (Ns = 61,858-61,862). Mean levels of SDO and RWA both trended upward across the adult lifespan, although this pattern was more marked for RWA. Cohort effects also emerged for both constructs and were again more pronounced for RWA. Contextual factors thus appear to influence authoritarianism more than they impact the preference for intergroup hierarchy. Similar trends emerged when differentiating birth cohorts by gender and ethnic majority status. Age and cohort effects for generalized prejudice among an ethnic majority group were also assessed (N = 47,955), revealing that prejudice declined in early adulthood but began to stabilize in middle age. This is the first large-scale study to document how SDO, RWA, and generalized prejudice change over the adult lifespan while also examining trends associated with the period in which a person was born and socialized.
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