Abstract:

Socialization Process Effecting Technological Innovation Acceptance in old AgesIn the today’s society, the age becomes one of the important variables in our relationships with the technology. Although the current studies show that the technological innovation improves the independence and the prosperity of the elderly, it is found that they constitute the last group who assimilates the innovations in the products, services or the ideas compared to young adults. In the previous studies which are relevant to the duration of the socialization that achieves the personal development by sharing the personnel tendency of the knowledge, ability, attitude, and behavior with other people, it is seen that there are two types of explanatory variables named as the interaction with the socialization agents and structural variables, which affects the socialization directly or indirectly. In this study the influence of the socialization variables on the acceptance of the technological innovations during the old ages is investigated in a theoretical way and the several suggestions are proposed.

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