Constructivist and Sociocultural Theories of Learning

Benevolent sexism (BS) has detrimental effects on women, yet women prefer men with BS attitudes over those without. The predominant explanation for this paradox is that women respond to the superficially positive appearance of BS without being aware of its subtly harmful effects. We propose an alternative explanation drawn from evolutionary and sociocultural theories on mate preferences: Women find BS men attractive because BS attitudes and behaviors signal that a man is willing to invest. Five studies showed that women prefer men with BS attitudes (Studies 1a, 1b, and 3) and behaviors (Studies 2a and 2b), especially in mating contexts, because BS mates are perceived as willing to invest (protect, provide, and commit). Women preferred BS men despite also perceiving them as patronizing and undermining. These findings extend understanding of women’s motives for endorsing BS and suggest that women prefer BS men despite having awareness of the harmful consequences.

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Considering qualitative inquiry, sociocultural theories, and complexity in the study of field-based learning

Geological Society of America Special Papers - Earth and Mind II: A Synthesis of Research on Thinking and Learning in the Geosciences ◽

10.1130/2012.2486(29) ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Alison Stokes ◽

Anthony Feig

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Inquiry ◽

Sociocultural Theories

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Vygotsky and cognitive science: Language and the unification of the social and computational mind. William Frawley. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. 384.

Applied Psycholinguistics ◽

10.1017/s0142716400213076 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 425-426 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Diane Beals

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Cognitive Science ◽

Human Mind ◽

Harvard University ◽

Computational Approaches ◽

The Social ◽

Sociocultural Theories ◽

Ways Of Thinking ◽

Important Position

Vygotsky's social psycholinguist approach is not incompatible with computational approaches to the study of mind. In this way William Frawley sets the stage for a Vygoskyan cognitive science. Socioculturalists' theorizing on the work of the human mind has long maintained boundaries against cognitive science's information processing approaches and language, and vice versa. Frawley argues that no such division is entirely necessary and offers powerful ways of linking the two ways of thinking. Frawley's background in both Vygotskyan and other sociocultural theories, as well as in cognitive science and computational theories, places him in an important position to make these links.

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Fear of crime and the media: sociocultural theories of risk

Risk and Sociocultural Theory ◽

10.1017/cbo9780511520778.003 ◽

1999 ◽

pp. 34-58 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

John Tulloch

Keyword(s):

Fear Of Crime ◽

Sociocultural Theories ◽

The Media

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Stories Lost and Found

Literacy Research Theory Method and Practice ◽

10.1177/2381336917718813 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 66 (1) ◽

pp. 29-52

Author(s):

Patricia E. Enciso

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Social Inequality ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Lost And Found ◽

Sociocultural Theories ◽

Global Discourse ◽

Literacy Research

As literacy scholars, we continually engage with the ongoing politics of imagination in everyday life across silenced histories and uncertain futures. In this article, I draw on sociocultural theories and philosophies of imagination as well as narrative and global discourse theories to argue that literacy research, in the context of social inequality, depends on our capacity to imagine otherwise and to tell and listen to stories without colonizing what is unknown and unfamiliar. I illustrate the consequences of (im)mobilizing imagination, and the effort to speak and be heard despite inequalities, by telling stories from my family’s history and by analyzing youth conarrations of their cross-cultural lives.

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