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Household production: beyond the economic perspective
Author(s) -
RETTIG KATHRYN D.
Publication year - 1987
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.1470-6431.1987.tb00068.x
Subject(s) - productivity , perspective (graphical) , production (economics) , quality (philosophy) , value (mathematics) , product (mathematics) , process (computing) , resource (disambiguation) , economics , economic growth , public economics , microeconomics , computer science , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , artificial intelligence , machine learning , computer network , philosophy , operating system
The effects on the family of an environment which places high value on economic productivity are considered. The paper emphasizes the importance of the social productivity of families, the management processes which contribute to improvements in economic and social productivity, and the importance of maintaining the social‐psychological perspective in family economics. The discussion outlines the resource and value contexts in which household production and its resulting family productivity are evaluated, the various dimensions of family productivity, and the integrative management processes which mobilize resources for conscious achievement of desired quality of life. Social productivity differs from economic productivity in its emphasis on the development of human resources attributes, effectiveness rather than efficiency, process more than product, quality more than quantity, and group rather than individual orientation. The innovative, creative problem‐solving process is contrasted to the economic decision process by application to the role and value conflict situations and divergent problems in families. The importance of going beyond the economic perspective of household production in understanding family productivity is essential for scholars of the family.