Social ecology

Social ecology is a scientific discipline about the harmonization of the relationship between nature and society. This branch of knowledge analyzes the human relationship (taking into account the humanistic side) with development needs. In doing so, the theoretical bases of comprehension of the world in its general concepts are used, expressing the degree of historical unity of nature and man.

Conceptual-categorial structure of science is in constant development and improvement. This process of change is quite diverse and penetrates into all spheres of social ecology in both objective and subjective terms. In this way scientific creativity is reflected in a unique way and the influence on the evolution of the methods of scientific search and the interests not only of individual scientific figures but also of various collectives in general is effected.

That approach to nature and society, which suggests the application of social ecology, to some extent may seem intellectually demanding. At the same time, he avoids some simplification of dualism and reductionism. Social ecology seeks to show the slow and multiphase process of the transformation of nature into society, taking into account all the differences on the one hand and on the other - the degree of interpenetration.

One of the primary tasks that confronts researchers at the stage of modern science affirmation is the definition of a common approach to understanding the subject of discipline. Despite some progress, which has been achieved in the study of various areas of interaction between man, nature and society, a large amount of material published over the past decades, on the issue of what specifically studies social ecology, there is still much controversy.

More and more researchers prefer the expanded interpretation of the subject matter of the discipline. For example, Markovich (a Serbian scientist) believed that the social ecology he sees as a private sociology studies the specific connections that are established between a person and his environment. Proceeding from this, the tasks of the discipline can be to study the influence of the totality of social and natural factors that make up the surrounding conditions on a person, as well as the individual's impact on external conditions perceived as the boundaries of a person's life.

There is also, to some extent, another, but not inconsistent with the explanation given above, the interpretation of the notion of the subject matter of the discipline. Thus, Haskin and Akimova view the social ecology as a complex of separate branches of science that investigate the relationship between social structures (beginning with the family itself and other small social collectives and groups), and also between man and the natural, social environment. Using this interpretation, it becomes possible to more fully study the social and environmental problems of our time. In this case, the approach to understanding the subject of discipline is not confined to the framework of one humanitarian science. At the same time, attention is focused on the interdisciplinary character of the discipline.

Defining the subject of social ecology, some researchers tend to note especially the importance that it is endowed with. The role of discipline, in their opinion, is very significant in the issue of harmonization of interaction between mankind and its environment. A number of authors believe that the task of social ecology, first of all, is to study the laws of nature and society. By these laws in this case we mean the principles of self-regulation in the biosphere, used by man in his life.