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Components for a professional field: unique purpose. Communicate these statements verbally with other people. Human ecology is a professions to serve families and individuals in understand relationships between people and their physical and social environment. Set of presuppositions - choices that act as guidelines for consistent practices. Presuppositions of our founders: freedom is desirable. Man finds meaning in life through societal interrelationships. Man has a free will and can make choices based upon reasons: therefore, he is self- forming. Physical and social environment can be transformed through the action of man: family is a basic human institution that gives meaning to life. Family is responsible as the caregiver of children. A desirable family form is the monogamic family. Social change may or may not be good: societal institutions give meaning to life. In summary of the presuppositions - the significance of family emphasized by our founders is a dominant position upon which home economics was built.
