human ecology

1. 1.

   the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations

   Synonymsdemography

   Broadersociology

Questions about human ecology

What does human ecology mean?

human ecology means "the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations".

What is another word for human ecology?

Close synonyms include demography. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is human ecology a common word?

human ecology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.