文化生态学论纲

Sketches for Cultural Ecology

文化生态学是一门将生态学的方法运用于文化学研究的新兴交叉学科,是研究文化的存在和发展的资源、环境、状态及规律的科学。文化生态学产生于20世纪中期,随着文化问题的突出和人们对电视、网络等现代媒体生态关系的重视而在90年代以后成为显学。"文化生态"与"生态文化"不同,文化生态学的特点是以生态学为主要方法的文化学,是以文化为研究对象的生态学。文化生态学面临着加快学科建设的任务,它的完善和应用,对于文化的发展和社会的进步具有促进的作用。

Cultural ecology is a newly-developed overlapping discipline, which applies the method of ecology to cultural studies. It is a science which studies the resource, environment, state and rules of cultural existence and development. It arose from the middle ages of the twentieth century and flourished there after the nineties with the foregrounding of culture and the importance people attach to the ecological relationship between modern media such as TV, Internet. Cultural Ecology is different from Ecological Culture. The former is mainly based on the method of ecology, focuses on the study of culture. Cultural ecology is in the need of quickening its developmental steps, its maturity and application will advance the development of culture and the progress of society.