social ecology
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The study of relationships between people and their environment, especially the interdependence of people, collectives and institutions.
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noun
A philosophical theory about the relationship between ecological and social issues associated with Murray Bookchin.
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Example Sentences
- "Social ecology, as it has been taught in Australia and elsewhere, is a broad, deep and tangential (out of the box) area of study. At its heart it imagines conversations across disciplines about social-ecological interrelationships."
- "We can now look more broadly beyond the political economy with which Bookchin was chiefly concerned to develop a more inclusive understanding of social ecology that takes in other dimensions of society, such as gender, race, technology, and cognition."