History of Families and Family Resource Management

By isabellamcc

  • Marx’s Views on Industrial Revolution

    Marx focused on the negative impact. Capitalist environment encouraged the exploitation of workers. When the oppressed challenge their oppressors, conditions can be changed.

  • Ellen Swallow Richards

    Richards started the movement of home economics. She campaigned for the new discipline of home economics. She would organize conferences, established programs, and published work around it. She did a lot for improving households by using sanitary and nutrition sciences.

  • Westermarck’s Views on Origin of Marriage

    Westermarck thought marriage was a habit from primitive times for a man and woman to live together, have offspring and rear them together. This habit was sanctioned by custom, and afterwards by law and was thus transformed into a social institution.

  • Abraham Maslow’s Motivation Theory

    Abraham Maslow’s Motivation Theory
    Maslow's theory was a famous pyramid of needs that is applied to the study of psychology, sociology, economics, families, and business. These needs can affect a person's behavior.

  • Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s Framework

    Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s developed a framework for comparing and contrasting the different value systems between and among different cultural groups. One of the underlying assumptions of their framework was there is variability in solutions to all the problems; however, experiences have common factors between and among families.

  • Juliet Mitchell's Theory

    Juliet Mitchell's Theory
    Mitchell's theory is around the four functions of family:
    1. Production: Producing or purchasing food and shelter, preparing workers to earn wages, and consumption of goods and services.
    2. Reproduction: Bearing and raising children.
    3. Socialization: Teaching the rules of society.
    4. Sexuality: “Legitimate” sexual activity.

  • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

    SNAP provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of needy families and move towards self-sufficiency. Everyone who lives together, purchases and prepares meals together is grouped together as one SNAP household. The qualifications of SNAP are 60 years of age or older, unable to purchase and prepare meals separately because of a permanent disability or a challenging situation.

  • The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

    Employees are eligible for leave under this act for the following situations:
    1. Birth and care of a newborn child.
    2. Placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care and to care for the newly placed child.
    3. Care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition.
    4. Any “qualifying exigency” arising from the fact that the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a covered military member on or called to active duty.

  • Lindahl and Malik’s Study

    This study clashes over power and control in marriage diminished support of the children. Mental and physical resources are limited as the couple are unavailable for other tasks.

  • Yorburg's Definition of Families

    Yorburg's Definition of Families
    Groups related by marriage, birth, adoption, or mutual definition, having elements of emotional involvement and identity attachment that connect individuals and create a maintenance need of that family unit, requiring acquisition and utilization of resources.

  • Sources

    Family Resource Management book and slides https://www.britannica.com/topic/History-of-Human-Marriage https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/17520_Chapter_2.pdf