Family Resources Management

Family Resources Management Family Resource Management - understanding decisions individuals and families make about development and allocating resources types of resources - time, money, material assets, energy, friends, neighbors, space and goals the identification of resources to meet specific needs is guided by what three things? - culture, availability, and accessibility decision making process: rational - has long lasting impact on the family involving alternatives, assessing consequences, estimating risk/uncertainty, determining value of consequences and selecting action example: education or medical decisions decision making process: bureaucratic - low risk and uncontested decisions that are habitual example: grocery shopping decision making process: political - produce outcomes that are related to power of the individuals within in the group example: parents deciding to relocate 5 step decision model: first step - recognize need 5 step decision model: second step - identify alternatives 5 step decision model: third step - evaluate alternatives 5 step decision model: fourth step - select and implement alternatives 5 step decision model: fifth step - reflect and evaluate selected alternative what contexts are families influenced by? - history, culture, and environment context of history - families change and how they manage resources changes as history eveolves. role of women, social aspects, work force, war, terrorist attacks, recession and economic depression context of environment - availability and accessibility of resources greatly influences how resources are used and managed. context of culture - culture and diversity have an impact on identification, use, and production of material and human resources example: family experience worldview according to kluckkhon and strodbeck - a framework for comparing and contrasting the different value systems between different cultural groups orientation: human nature - belief system that informs decision making evil, mix of evil and good, and good orientation: man and nature - are humans subjugated, in harmony, or have mastery over nature? orientation: time - look into the past by studying or practicing past rituals, look into present by focusing on immediate, or look into future by planning, preparing and investing in future orientation: human activity - living for today, focus becoming, or focus on accomplishments orientation: human relations - lineal (traditional), collaborative (team work), and individualistic (myself)? the most basic unit of society is _____ - family types of family: democratic family - modern family- bread winning husband, house wife, children (1900's-1960s) types of family: companionate family - married due to love (20th century) types of family: postmodern family - families at this time in history are diverse types of family: traditional nuclear family - implies husband wife and children are in one home legal system defines family as - linked by marriage, blood, or adoption life insurance policy defines family as - spouse or child to get ssc benefits you need - marriage certificate, divorce papers, and/or dependent children ssc number yorburgs mutual definition of family - when people define themselves as family, essentially they are family for a family to function they need to - have a sense of belonging, emotional security, socialization, and physical and emotional needs national marriage project founded that - less children, more divorce, less marriages, no fathers, more fragile cultural contexts include - race, ethnicity, religion, politics, economics, and technology