The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community

McKenzie, R. D.

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“…The structural analysis of neighbourhood change, residential differentiation and the concomitant processes of spatial segregation and concentration started with the human ecology tradition associated with the Chicago School (see, for example, McKenzie, 1925McKenzie, /1974Burgess, 1925Burgess, /1974Park et al, 1925Park et al, /1974. Human ecologists analysed the city as a separate entity and were less concerned with the city as a re¯ection and manifestation of the wider society (Bassett and Short, 1980).…”

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Ethnic Segregation in Cities: New Forms and Explanations in a Dynamic World

1998

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Summary. As an introduction to this special issue on ethnic segregation in cities, we offer the readers an overview of the explanatory factors of ethnic segregation and spatial concentration in modern welfare states. After a discussion of the disadvantages and advantages of segregation and concentration, which can be seen as the impetus behind the widespread interest in this topic, we will brie¯y review som e`traditional' theories. That review will be followed by a closer look at behavioural theories and explanations in which constraints are central. The next section will elaborate on restructuring processes, giving special attention to economic change and its effects on cities, groups and spatial arrangements. W e will conclude this introduction with a few remarks on the future of ethnic segregation and concentration and outline some possible directions for future research in this ® eld.

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Ethnic Segregation in Cities: New Forms and Explanations in a Dynamic World

1998

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“…Founded mainly by the works of Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, Roderick D. McKenzie and Louis Wirth [15][16][17], the Chicago School set out to understand the principles of organization of the urban metropolis. Drawing on insights from plant ecology, the relations of human beings with their environments were described as the products of competition and selection [18]. The accepted development model was that of a cyclic change of states of balance and imbalance whereby community problems like social segregation, increasing crime rates, ethnic conflicts, or public health issues were interpreted as manifestations of the latter.…”

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Social Ecology as Critical, Transdisciplinary Science—Conceptualizing, Analyzing and Shaping Societal Relations to Nature

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Jähn

Keil³

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Abstract:The sustainability discourse is, essentially, centered on the question of how complex relations between nature and society can be conceptualized, analyzed and shaped. In this paper, we present a specific interpretation of social ecology as an attempt to address this question. For this purpose, we establish Frankfurt Social Ecology (FSE) as a formal research program, which is based on the concept of societal relations to nature (SRN). The basic idea of the SRN concept is to put the modern distinction between nature and society at the start of a critical analysis. Such an analysis, we argue, has to focus on the interplay between what we call patterns and modes of regulation. Whereas patterns of regulation stand for the material and symbolic aspects of the organization of the individual and societal satisfaction of needs, modes of regulation mirror the norms and power structures of a society. Using an approach that is based on reformulating social-ecological systems as provisioning systems, we show how this interplay can be analyzed empirically. Finally, we propose critical transdisciplinarity as the research mode of choice of FSE. To conclude, we discuss how FSE can contribute to the development of a research program for a sustainable Anthropocene.

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“…En el planteamiento original de Park (1925;, McKenzie (1924) y Burguess (1926) subyace la idea de una homogeneidad distribuida en el espacio, por tanto las ecologías, los espacios interaccionales, tendían a ser estables y permanentes mientras la homogeneidad espacial persistiera subsumiendo la temporalidad como una constante y era posible considerarlas como una condición estructural, algo similar a lo que ocurre en la idea de contexto de Giddens. Sin embargo al variabilizar el tiempo a partir de su percepción el espacio interaccional se torna inestable, pues nada asegura la persistencia de la comunalidad.…”

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Comunalidad. Sobre el estudio de la ‘duración’ de los contextos de interacción urbanos Communalty. On temporal magnitud of of interaction situations in urban contexts.

Vidal

2016

Revista De Urbanismo

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ResumenEl objetivo de este trabajo es considerar la noción de 'comunalidad' para el estudio de la duración de las situaciones de interacción en los contextos urbanos. Para ello se revisan el rol de la percepción individual en la composición de los parámetros de acción social; la operación de un ejercicio epistemológico ('objetualización') que permite gestionar individual y socialmente lo percibido y como ello se torna 'común' a los actores mediante la proximidad de percepciones ('comunalidad'). Finalmente se propone considerar que la densidad de la 'comunalidad' en la percepción de los individuos puede ser útil para fijar la duración de los contextos de interacción urbanos (ecologías). Palabras Clave

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The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community

Cited by 155 publications

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Ethnic Segregation in Cities: New Forms and Explanations in a Dynamic World

Ethnic Segregation in Cities: New Forms and Explanations in a Dynamic World

Social Ecology as Critical, Transdisciplinary Science—Conceptualizing, Analyzing and Shaping Societal Relations to Nature

Comunalidad. Sobre el estudio de la ‘duración’ de los contextos de interacción urbanos Communalty. On temporal magnitud of of interaction situations in urban contexts.

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