Institutional logics can be generally understood as "the socially constructed, historical pattern of material practices, assumptions, values, beliefs, and rules by which individuals produce and reproduce their material subsistence, organise time and space, and provide meaning to their social reality" (Thornton and Ocasio 1999, p.804).
Hence, as it was confirmed in the group discussion, the scenario of these observed changes both spatially and temporally of shrub land cover was due to the increased demand for fire wood, charcoal and construction materials for subsistence as well as expansion of forest and cultivated and rural settlement land.
The aboriginal material culture and subsistence patterns of the Vedda were extremely simple.
A critical pioneering effort, the monograph documents cultural changes occurring over a 2,000 year time period changes in technology, material culture, settlement, subsistence, and socio political organization.
These roles encompass subsistence material uses (e.g. for milk and meat production, transport, and caravans), a cultural importance in terms of aesthetics, cultural identity, and tribal/group identification, as well as the recent use of income generation out of a pastoral context.
Local school districts contributed funds for materials, travel, and subsistence for personnel to attend training.
"Before men can do anything else," Marx wrote, "they must first produce the means of their subsistence". Without material production there would be no life and thus no human activity.
The humans have casually enslaved the inhabitants, who are peaceful, physically slight, with a subsistence-level material culture.
Meanwhile, I would summarize it this way: Markets, property rights, freedom of enterprise, etc., create the material basis for getting beyond mere subsistence, which in turn is a necessary precondition "for organized self-government and modern civil rights".
By destroying subsistence economies, maldevelopment projects created material poverty where, before, there had been none.
As the technologies and processes for providing for the basic needs in the agricultural phase became unproblematic enough, the focus could shift to providing material goods to elevate the level of subsistence.
