History of Resource Management

By EmilyWalker21

  • Ellen Swallow

    Ellen Swallow
    Ellen Swallow Richards began focusing her energy on developing a new discipline that would combine science, chemistry, and home management with an emphasis on sanitary practices. This new applied science was coined "oekology" in 1892- the science of normal lives.

  • Early Definition of Family

    1920s definition of family was as follows: "The term "family" as here used signifies a group of persons, whether related by blood or not, who live together as one household, usually sharing the same table. One person living alone is counted as a family, and, on the other-hand, the occupants or inmates of a hotel or institution, however numerous are treated as a single family."

  • New Concept of Household

    By 1930, the concept of a "household" had become more important and by implication was separated from the term "family."

  • Home Economics

    Home economics evolved into a vocational field in the 1960s.

  • Beatrice Paolucci

    Beatrice Paolucci
    Beatrice was a leading theorist in the twentieth century and was especially interested in how family systems interact with both their near and far environments, which was coined the "human ecological approach." She received the Osborne award in 1981.

  • Reinforcement of the Importance of Family Resource Management

    Multinational papers presented at the 1998 International Household and Family Research Conference held in Helsinki, Finland reinforced the importance of family resource management to the well-being of families including the pursuit of the ideal life (Turkki 1999; Fujimoto and Aoki 1999).
    Read more: https://family.jrank.org/pages/1395/Resource-Management-Conceptual-Framework-History.html

  • Management Research Studies

    Data base studies have found that family resources play a huge role in healthy family functioning amongst Korean immigrant families here in the United States.

  • Definition of Family Evolves

    2010 definition of family is as follows: "A family consists of a householder and one or more other people living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption."

  • Family/ Marital Changes

    Same sex marriage became legal in all 50 states changing the way people saw families. Until the year 2015 a marriage was only something we saw between a man and woman.

  • Decreasing Birth Rates

    Decreasing Birth Rates
    In 2017 the US saw the lowest birth rates tracked since 1909. People in the old days saw children as an extra hand, and now people see them as an extra mouth to feed.

  • Sources

    Pemberton, D. (2021, October 8). Statistical definition of family unchanged since 1930. The United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2015/01/statistical-definition-of-family-unchanged-since-1930.html
    Family and Resource Management by: Tami James Moore and Sylvia M. Asay
    YouTube. (2011). YouTube. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEI_l61eOzY.