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Chapter 10
Socio-ecological Niche of Tribes of Purulia
District, West Bengal, India
Somnath Mukherjee and Uma Sankar Malik
10.1 Introduction
The study of the Social ecology has been a recent sprout in the broad spectrum of
the Human Geography. The essence of the Social ecology is to judge the human
world from the perspectives of different aspects of ecology and society. The Social
ecology is concerned with the relation between man and his environment, emphasizing attention to the social, institutional and cultural contexts of peopleenvironment relations while drawing on a problem-based theoretical framework
developed for the analysis of complex societal issues.
The Social ecology in another words is a variant of radicalism, in which socioecological study discerns with the interrelationship between the nature and social
attributes such as culture (the art, science, ideology, ways of living – (French) genre
de vie), social structure (family, kinship, castes and community), economy (forces
and relations of production and trade) and polity (relation of power, law and sta.te).
The Social ecology and its philosophical aspects ware developed, nourished and
modified by the renowned philosophers through their contributions and substantial
works over the years and among them the most important exponents are –
Radhakamal Mukherjee (1926, 1930, 1942), D. N. Majumder (1956), P. K. Bhowmik
(1963), Murray Bookchin (1964), H. C. Brookfield (1969), Vidyarthi (1972),
Madhav Gadgil (1976), W. R. Burch (1987), Ramachandran Guha (2008).
Radhakamal Mukherjee (1930), an intellectual polymath, has been considered the
Indian pioneers in social ecology. According to the words of Ramachandra Guha
(2008) in his edited book Social Ecology – “In a series of books and articles written
S. Mukherjee (*)
Department of Geography, Bankura Christian College, Bankura, West Bengal, India
U. S. Malik
Department of Geography, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Rukhsana et al. (eds.), Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics, Advances in Asian
Human-Environmental Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49115-4_10
Chapter 10
Socio-ecological Niche of Tribes of Purulia
District, West Bengal, India
Somnath Mukherjee and Uma Sankar Malik
10.1 Introduction
The study of the Social ecology has been a recent sprout in the broad spectrum of
the Human Geography. The essence of the Social ecology is to judge the human
world from the perspectives of different aspects of ecology and society. The Social
ecology is concerned with the relation between man and his environment, emphasizing attention to the social, institutional and cultural contexts of peopleenvironment relations while drawing on a problem-based theoretical framework
developed for the analysis of complex societal issues.
The Social ecology in another words is a variant of radicalism, in which socioecological study discerns with the interrelationship between the nature and social
attributes such as culture (the art, science, ideology, ways of living – (French) genre
de vie), social structure (family, kinship, castes and community), economy (forces
and relations of production and trade) and polity (relation of power, law and sta.te).
The Social ecology and its philosophical aspects ware developed, nourished and
modified by the renowned philosophers through their contributions and substantial
works over the years and among them the most important exponents are –
Radhakamal Mukherjee (1926, 1930, 1942), D. N. Majumder (1956), P. K. Bhowmik
(1963), Murray Bookchin (1964), H. C. Brookfield (1969), Vidyarthi (1972),
Madhav Gadgil (1976), W. R. Burch (1987), Ramachandran Guha (2008).
Radhakamal Mukherjee (1930), an intellectual polymath, has been considered the
Indian pioneers in social ecology. According to the words of Ramachandra Guha
(2008) in his edited book Social Ecology – “In a series of books and articles written
S. Mukherjee (*)
Department of Geography, Bankura Christian College, Bankura, West Bengal, India
U. S. Malik
Department of Geography, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India