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SCIENCE AND HOME ECONOMICS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Author(s) -
BAYLISS ROBERT A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of consumer studies and home economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 0309-3891
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-6431.1978.tb00311.x
Subject(s) - formative assessment , theme (computing) , family and consumer science , sociology , quality (philosophy) , history , social science , economic history , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics education , pedagogy , psychology , computer science , operating system
Scientists played an important part in the formative years of the nineteenth century when Home Economics was evolving into a coherent discipline. The paper considers the lives and works of six scientists from both sides of the Atlantic: Count Rumford, J. C. Buckmaster, W. Mattieu Williams, E. L. Youmans, Ellen Richards and W. O. Atwater. One connecting theme is in the quality of their advocacy of scientific applications in everyday affairs.