While women generally represent the more sought-after gender by typical offline marketers they control the majority of families' at liberty income new research suggests that it's men that spend the most online, particularly in certain product categories.
According to new research from America Online, men will spend up to 15 percent more during the current holiday season. Based on the data, gathered from more than 6,200 shoppers, men will spend an average of $326 online, versus women's $284 dollars.
Outside of the holiday season, men spend an average of $204 monthly on Internet goods and services, while women spend about $186.
The survey also found that men who buy online go on the Web to look for deals more often than their female online shopping counterparts about 31 times a month, versus 22 times for women. Women make about 20 percent fewer online purchases each month.
Luxury goods and services represent a key segment for the male shopper, with 42 percent of the survey's participating males saying they shopped for such items online. That's compared to 35 percent of women. Additionally, online men are also willing to spend a maximum of $1,751 for a single item they buy online, while women said they would pay $787.
It's not clear why this is the case. One reason might stem from males' greater experience in online shopping. About 46 percent said they have been e-commerce users for more than three years, while slightly fewer -- 39 percent -- women reported having similar tenures.
It's important to note, however, that female shoppers actually outnumber male shoppers, according to AOL, which conducted the survey in August and September. (Other studies back this up -- Shopping.com reported during last holiday season that women comprised more than 52 percent of its traffic.)
"While women do represent the majority of online shoppers, men are outspending them," said Bob Hayes, vice president and general manager for AOL eCommerce. "And, more than that, they are no longer just shopping online for the convenience, now they are also researching and browsing and comparing prices."
Both men and women cited online music and video, clothing, and books as their top categories for holiday gift-giving.
“The shoppers now made 51% of their purchases on the web compared with 48% in 2015 and 47% in 2014”(Wall Street Journal)
Part of the answer to this question might be that men are encouraged to play with hi-tech toys while girls are given a Barbi doll or a toy oven. The best time to see how these differences are encouraged by our society is during the Holiday season. The toys I have seen for boys are mainly Star Wars action figures or Nintendo 64 games. The toys advertised for girls were mostly easy bake ovens (that now makes M&M cakes) or Barbi dolls with various accessories.
... A metaphor, used as a communication skill, is best described in a political way. Think of Reagan’s Voodoo economics, or Bill Clinton building a bridge to the 21st century. Politicians can easily scam an ignorant voter, should one not understand a metaphor. For example: Clinton refers to building a bridge, but does not tell us with which tools he intends to build it with. This particular concept is valid alone for the above reason. Whether you are talking to a teacher or watching television, metaphors need to understand.
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Metaphors, according to Professor George Lakoff, are a way to think and reason about life. They are not a unique way to speak about it, but a common way to talk about life experiences since they are a reflection of our thought processes (1986). This became immediately apparent to me when I began looking for metaphors commonly used. It took some time to find any because they were pervasive of my thought system that I did not even notice many phrases around me were metaphors. Those phrases were not “poetic or rhetorical” way of talking, but a normal usage for those around me to express their thoughts (Lakeoff, 1986, p.216). The metaphor that came up several times on my search was history as roots. This metaphor allows us to think about life in a certain way and it holds particular implications for our interpersonal communication.
What are theories of crime? Why are they important? In this paper, will discuss two crime theories. Social learning theory and the labeling theory. We will compare both crime theories. It will also explain how these theories are related to specific crimes. The two theories discussed will also explain the policy implications. Finally, we will address what types of programs can be created to mitigate specific crimes related to the causation theories.
I’m not 100% sure this is deliberate, but you can definitely tell that gender is an important factor in how they run their businesses. Every single age was affected by gender, from babies to elderly people. From my understanding, this would be on the institutional level of the gender structure. As stated in the excerpt, “…institutional domains where explicit regulations regarding resource distribution and material goods are gender specific” (Risman, pg. 433). These material goods are being marketed in different ways and for different prices to each gender. Gender is a large part of our society and culture. It dictates how items are marketed towards both genders, and places us into gender roles whether we like it or
This factor is very important in doing business because according to Lis Hojgaard (2002), there are only two genders in the world and it seems that most of the leaders in business are men, causing the need for women to work harder to keep their business (p.18). Further, Harvard Business Review Staff, explained in the article Women in the Workplace: A Research Roundup (2013) that women do not pursue their business strategies as strongly as men do because of frustration and long hours. These women often would rather to spend their time taking care of their families. The consequence is that men are usually more superior to women in doing business than going to an office. Harvard Business Review Staff also wrote, “Men get more the critical assignments that lead to advancement than women do, so on average the men’s projects had budgets twice as large and three times as many staff as the women”. This explains that men do business more successfully than women do because they have greater resources. These evidences shows us the comparison and the relationship between men and women in doing
Online buyers also have many concerns about shopping online. From the same article mentioned above, the following were tallied:
This study expanded on previous research because it analyzed how the sex of a grocery shopper affected shopping behavior. The study also differed from previous research because it was a naturalistic observation as opposed to a survey and it analyzed how the bag type affected the grocery shopping behavior. Consistent with previous research, it was hypothesized that women would use more bags than men. Additionally, it was hypothesized that people with plastic bags would have a higher quantity of bags than people with reusable
The Pragmatic Theory. Searle proposed an account of metaphor that takes Davidson’s theory even further than the Naïve theory and rejects the idea of linguistic ambiguity idea (Lycan 184). Metaphorical utterance is taken to be a linguistic communication and it posits a cognitive mechanism that computes something that could be called metaphorical meaning. This theory of metaphor is the most compelling because metaphor is seen as simply of species of Gricean communication. The problem of explaining how we understand metaphor is a case of explaining how speaker meaning and sentence meaning can be divergent. Gricean logic can provide an instructive way to break down the problem of metaphorical meaning. This theory is the most plausible and overcomes Davidson’s leading objections to metaphorical meaning.
Online and in-store shopping differentiates in various ways. However, they both are convenient ways to shop. Recently, online shopping has been most convenient for me, but I enjoy both ways of shopping. I believe that shopping preferences change depending on a person’s situation. I noticed that many people are starting to prefer online shopping more than in-store shopping.
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When comparing two different ways of shopping most people do not even think about, they do both and not even realize it. In today?s society people shop while at work, after work and on the weekends, whenever time permits. Did you ever stop and think how can I get more time in the day for family or just myself? The best way to figure out with all the recourses we have; still most of us go into a store and spend time looking through racks and waiting in endless line to just purchase something. I compared going into a store verses online shopping; to see which on will save you time and money.
Men have assumed a more aggressive and dominant role “Many traditional gender-based stereotypes are widely accepted in our society. Someof the prevailing notions about men maintain that they are aggressive” (Crooks and Bauer, 2014: p 134), whereas, woman are supposed to nature and run the household “Women are frequently viewed as nonassertive, illogical, emotional, subordinate, warm, and nurturing (Crooks and Buaer, 2014: p 134). However, in today’s society gender equality has become a more common practice where both sexes take on masculine and feminine roles to in every day life “Research suggests that women are less entrenched than men in rigid gender-role stereotypes and are more inclined to embrace positions of equality with men (Ben-David & Schneider, 2005)” as cited in (Crooks and Bauer, 2014: p 135). Due to ability to work from home, woman have accepted a modern role of holding a career as well as raising a family and men are seen working and helping out with regular house hold chores. People are beginning to conform to are less traditional view, but in my personal experience woman still hold a more traditional role and men are still the primary providers for a family. Women tend to be stay at home moms and only work part time jobs, while men establish a career and focus primarily on their work. In smaller communities this seems to be more of a