The History and Characteristics of American Home Economics Research -An Analysis of Journals of American Home Economics Association- (Part 2)

An Analysis of the Selected Papers through the Classification by Chronological Order and Subject-Matter Areas

Abstract

In the previous report, we selected appropriate papers for this study. In this report, we try to analyze those papers by classifying them in terms of chronological order and subject-matter areas.
The results are shown below :
(1) The number of papers from 1920's to 1930's is very small, while papers from 1940's to 1970's are relatively numerous.
(2) The number of papers on Philosophy of Home Economics and Home Management hasn't changed much in the whole period. The number of papers on Food-Nutrition and Home Economics Education is decreasing. There is an increase in the number of papers on other subjectmatter areas.
(3) By the analyses based on the proportion of 10 subject-matter areas, the period from 1910's to 1980's can be divided into three. The first period is from 1910's to 1930's. The feature of this period is attaching importance to Food-Nutrition and Home Economics Education. The second period is 1940's in which we see some traits of a transitional stage. The third period is from 1950's to 1980's. The feature of this period is that the difference in percentage of 10 subjectmatter areas is small.