Names aren't the only thing that people in the field can't agree on. The influx of scholars from other disciplines created a rift within home economics. Some professors still identify with the synthetic notion of a home economist. Most do not. At times, Ms. Brumberg has had to struggle to get historians to take her work in human ecology seriously.
People are satisfied to run a federation of specialization.
But you can't fragment the field. You can't teach nutrition without caring about family-resource management. You can't talk about shelter without talking about space utilization. But when you're dealing with issues that relate to families and food and clothing, people think they don't need a body of knowledge. They assume they already know everything that a home economist can teach.