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Resources Flashcards

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resources

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  • what is available to be used; anything with real or perceived value used to attain or satisfy something
  • Resources are only resources if they’re there at the appropriate time -> otherwise they might become more of a constraint
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resourcefulness

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ability to recognize and use resources effectively

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recognition and allocation of resources

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  • Should be allocated to meet appropriate, important goals
  • Often diverted to immediate needs, demands
  • Each person has a different type and amount of resources
  • Different life demands over the life course may cause pressure points on resources
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how do we allocate resources?

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  • Equity: fairness
  • Equality: Can’t always be equal -> ex. 15-year-old boy needs more food than 2 year-old girl; child with special needs needs more resources than a “typically” developing child
  • Need: some need more than others
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how has allocating resources for kids changed over time?

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We’ve seen a shift from not really using resources for kids -> using resources on male kids only -> using resources on all kids

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the sharing economy

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  • All industries are seeing rises in the shared/collaborative economy -> money is not the only resource that has to be exchanged
  • Transportation (ex. Car2Go, Evo)
  • Retail (ex. Etsy, Craigslist)
  • Accommodation (ex. Airbnb)
  • Services (ex. Handy, Taskrabbit)
  • Finance (ex. Indiegogo, Kickstarter)
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categories of resources (according to Goldsmith)

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  • Material
  • Family
  • Work
  • Social
  • Education
  • Technological
  • Health
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classification of resources

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  • Material and Human
  • Economic and non-economic
  • Tangible and intangible (Intangible resources: honesty, integrity, etc)
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material resources (aka: economic resources)

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  • Income
  • Wealth
  • Employee benefits
  • Credit
  • Property
  • Household equipment, computers, cars
  • Natural resources
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human resources

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  • The skills, talents, and abilities that people possess
    Include time, energy, knowledge, education, health, friendship
  • Individual vs. Interpersonal vs. Family group (interpersonal: Love, trust, respect, information, cooperation, friendship, communication; family group: cohesion, adaptability)
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attributes of human resources

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  • Cognitive: knowledge aspects of resource use
  • Affective: feelings about or expressions of resource use
  • Psychomotor: physical reactions to mental stimuli and demands
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human capital

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  • Total of a person’s human resources

- Athletic skills + Cognitive ability + Interpersonal skills + Emotional maturity

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material assets

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  • sum total of material resources

- Income + Employee benefits + Possessions + Home

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resource stock

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Material assets + human capital = resource stock

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developing human capital

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  • Role of family, society -> both have influence on people
  • Private sphere’s (family’s) role in developing human capital (particularistic)
  • Public sphere’s (societal) role in developing human capital (universalistic)
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Public sphere’s (societal) role in developing human capital (universalistic)

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  • Education
  • Health and welfare
  • Businesses
  • Vocational training
  • daycare
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Private sphere’s (family’s) role in developing human capital (particularistic)

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  • Child-rearing
  • Provision of food, etc.
  • Satisfying personal relations
  • Values and language acquisition
  • Learn routines of life (ex. Hygiene routines, how to interact with different people, etc.)
  • Learn problem-solving
  • Customs/traditions
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foa and foa’s resource model

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  • High particularism -> low particularism (you want this from particular people)
  • High: status, love, service
  • Low: info, money, goods
  • Low concreteness -> high concreteness
  • High: service, goods, money
  • Low: info, status, love
  • The resources can interact (ex. Info and money, money and goods; goods and service; service and love, love and status, status and info)
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resource exchange and friends

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  • Prefer to repay others with similar resources, not dissimilar ones
  • Ex. Giving a thoughtful gift to a friend who did the same to you, rather than giving them cash
  • Exchanges are perceived as inequitable but don’t yield dissatisfaction among friends -> Resources will even out over time
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strategies for seeking particularistic resources

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  • Occasional events: Youth festivals, blind dates, personal ads, speed dating
  • Institutional approaches: Chat rooms, health clubs, businesses facilitating meeting eligible people, sensitivity and support groups
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how do possessions relate to life transitions

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  • May replace prior possessions with ones relating to the life transition -> Ex. Replace high school diploma with university degree
  • Retain those that show key achievements -> Ex. Put away high school diploma but frame and display university degree
  • Keepsake of past life events = memories
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family heirlooms

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  • Cherished possessions and the stories connected with them
  • Older consumers hope the stories of their lives will be remembered and possessions maintained but fear this won’t happen
  • Personal/family/cultural/religious identity is part of what it is a cherished possession
  • Women are more likely to pass on family possessions and hope their loved ones will care for those possessions, regardless of age
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the elderly and possessions in assisted living

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  • Cherished objects make their room more homey
  • Representations of who they were (ex. Photos, paintings they did, etc.)
  • Mundane objects for their everyday life
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immigrants’ possessions as a resource

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  • Immigrants’ belongings maintain connection to home country and culture
  • To fix one to a place, time, and culture
  • To protect or buffer themselves from change
  • To help create a sense of home in the new country
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refugees and possessions

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  • Refugees separated from possessions
  • Documents are important possessions
  • Items symbolizing their experience become important
  • Artifacts of the refugee experience – leave to family or museum
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materialism - why can’t we part with our stuff?

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  • Attachment styles:
  • Affiliation seeking -> reflects our interactions with others
  • Autonomy seeking -> reflects ourselves
  • Possession meanings:
  • Source of identity
  • Memory concerns
  • Desire to maintain control over objects
  • Heightened sense of responsibility for objects
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some strategies to get rid of possessions

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  • use Friends, acquaintances, and strangers to help
  • Shrines -> pick a few important objects and display them
  • Avoiding tactile sympathy -> don’t touch objects
  • Treasure hunting -> looking through possessions to find most important ones
  • Bins and organized storage spaces
  • Disposal rules
  • Visualization strategies
  • Client control over decisions
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external exchange vs. internal exchange

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  • external: outside of family (ex. real estate, retail)

- internal: within family

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scarcity

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  • a shortage or an insufficient amount of supply

- forces people to make a choice and decisions about allocation of resources

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opportunity

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A hoped-for favorable income, a chance for progress, winning, fulfillment, advancement, or action leading to a desired goal

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opportunity cost

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the highest-valued alternative that must be sacrificed to satisfy a want or attain something (e.g. quitting a job to stay home with children)

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private vs. public resources

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  • private: Owned and/or controlled by individual, a family, or a group
  • public: Owned and used by all the people in a locality, or country; a national park and a county owned swimming pool
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resource-advantage theory (entrepreneurship and leveraging)

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  • Applies entrepreneurship and leveraging to resource management
  • Entrepreneur: A person who organizes, operates, and successfully manages a new enterprise
  • Leveraging: Doing more with less (being more effective in the use of resources)
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utility

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The value, worth, applicability, productiveness, or simply, usefulness of a resource (learned and subjective)

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consume

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means to destroy, use, or expend

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strategy

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a plan of action, a ways of conducting and following through on operations

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conservation of resources theory

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  • How people used their resources to resist stress and increase their well-being.
  • people strive to retain prized resources (like power or money)
  • different resources have different value to different people (“prized” means something different to everyone)

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