Social ecology may refer to:

• Social ecology (academic field), the study of relationships between people and their environment, often the interdependence of people, collectives and institutions
• Social ecological model, frameworks for depicting the conceptual interrelations between environmental and personal factors
• Social-ecology, a French political movement
• Social ecology (ethics), the concept of human interaction with the environment and its effect
  • Social ecology (Bookchin), a theory about the relationship between ecological and social issues, associated with Murray Bookchin

• Socioecology, the scientific study of how social structure and organization are influenced by an organism's environment