Cluster Standards
This cluster includes the following benchmarks.
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- SS.912.S.4.1 : Describe how individuals are affected by the different social groups to which they belong.
- SS.912.S.4.2 : Identify major characteristics of social groups familiar to the students.
- SS.912.S.4.3 : Examine the ways that groups function, such as roles, interactions and leadership.
- SS.912.S.4.4 : Discuss the social norms of at least two groups to which the student belongs.
- SS.912.S.4.5 : Analyze what can occur when the rules of behavior are broken and analyze the possible consequences for unacceptable behavior.
- SS.912.S.4.6 : Identify the various types of norms (folkways, mores, laws, and taboos) and explain why these rules of behavior are considered important to society.
- SS.912.S.4.7 : Discuss the concept of deviance and how society discourages deviant behavior using social control.
- SS.912.S.4.8 : Explain how students are members of primary and secondary groups and how those group memberships influence students’ behavior.
- SS.912.S.4.9 : Discuss how formal organizations influence behavior of their members.
- SS.912.S.4.10 : Distinguish the degree of assimilation that ethnic, cultural, and social groups achieve with the United States culture.
- SS.912.S.4.11 : Discuss how humans interact in a variety of social settings.
- SS.912.S.4.12 : Determine the cultural patterns of behavior within such social groups as rural/urban or rich/poor.
- SS.912.S.4.13 : Investigate and compare the ideas about citizenship and cultural participation of social groups from the past with those of the present community.