SOC 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Uhuru Park, World Wide Fund For Nature, Endangered Species Act Of 1973

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 105
• Professor: John Shandra

Document Summary

Standing up for trees: women"s role in the chipko movement. The chipko movement can be considered a success story in the fight to secure women"s rights through the process of local community development through forestry and in environmental protection. Social movement: if a need is felt for altering or transforming structures in a certain fashion, some form of mobilization and resources is resorted to, this activity is named a social movement. In other words, a sustained and intentional effort of a group of individuals organized into a group to bring about change. However, sometimes a social movement could be a collective resistance to social change. Basically, a social movement can be either to change or preserve the way things are. The chipko movement is an ecological movement concerned with the preservation of the forests and thereby with the maintenance of the traditional ecological balance. It strives to maintain the traditional status quo of between the people and the environment.