We must be able to argue for our field and to explain to colleagues from other disciplines, or
in the school, or other institutional and social
settings what we more specifically mean by
home economics. We need to encircle the field in order to be able to define home economics
science by its own rights. By this I mean, that
the field is not architecture, engineering,
psychology or pure chemistry. It holds its core from the individual, the family, the home,
household and its surroundings, and analyses problems critical from the perspective of the
individual, the family and/or the home; otherwise our subject disappears into other
disciplines more well defined and described than
home economics. So the broadness of our
field is also our weakness