| 单词 | urban ecology |
| 释义 | > as lemmasurban ecology b. Chiefly Sociology. The study of the relationships between people, social groups, and their environment; (also) the system of such relationships in an area of human settlement. Frequently with modifying word, as cultural ecology, social ecology, urban ecology.Recorded earliest in human ecology n. at human adj. and n. Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 14 395 Human ecology, a study of the geographic conditions of human culture. 1923 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 29 356 Among the research projects presented were..the ecology of the city in relation to politics. 1926 Social Forces 5 251/1 The growth, organization, problems, and prospects of cities and their inhabitants. Including the social psychology, social processes, and social ecology in city life. 1959 A. Inkeles in L. Broom et al. Sociol. Today xi. 274 Ecology, population statistics, and crime rates are all sociology. 1976 I. M. Lewis Social Anthropol. in Perspective vi. 164 [They] are not as simple-minded as some anthropologists of the cultural ecology school; they recognize that fighting and feud are not restricted to the dry seasons. 1991 K. P. Wilkinson Community in Rural Amer. i. 23 While characteristics of the local ecology certainly can influence interaction, it is the social interaction that first delineates and then maintains the local ecology as a unit. 2004 Contemp. Sociol. 33 330/1 [He] frames his study using urban ecology theories to show how unusual faith communities emerged in Four Corners as a result of in- and out-migration. < as lemmas |
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