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© Kamla-Raj 2004 J. Hum. Ecol., 16(4): 249-252 (2004)
Linking Insiders with Outsiders: Going to and
beyond
the
edges of
human
ecology Robert J. Gregory School of Psychology, Massey University Palmerston
North, New Zealand Phone: 64 6 350-5799 extension 2053; Fax:
64 6 350-5673; E-Mail:
R.J.Gregory@massey.ac.nz
Keywords
Abstract Ecology is about the relationships between diverse entities, human ecology concerns the links between diverse groupings of people. This case study of a prison population and an intervention reveals that ecological thinking can be useful to understand, and then to change the structural and dynamic relationships between members of the free community and those resident in a prison setting. Human ecology then in addition to being a research enterprise, becomes an approach to create effective social change.
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