The socioecological approach treats mind and habitat as recursively co-created.

Evidence

The main goal of the socioecological perspective is to delineate how the mind and behavior of individuals are related to the natural and social habitats that surround them, such as economic, political, educational, societal, and organizational reward systems, as well as more intermediate structures such as the characteristics of cities, towns and neighborhoods, housing, and family and kin relationships. Although this approach may sound akin to that of ecological biologists who primarily study animals’ behaviors in relation to their natural habitats, the important distinction is that it also deals with the recursive process in which the human mind and behavior affect and create social habitats (see Oishi & Graham, 2010, for an extensive review of this approach). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1640

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines socioecology as distinct from plain ecology by its recursive loop between human behavior and its habitats.
• QUESTION: How does this framework avoid tautology — if mind and habitat co-create each other, what is the causal entry point?
• XREF: connects to: Deep ecology understands beings as constituted by their relations, not as separate from environments — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 327