Standard 4 : Social Groups/Explore the impacts of social groups on individual and group behavior.



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General Information

Number: SS.912.S.4
Title: Social Groups/Explore the impacts of social groups on individual and group behavior.
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Sociology

Related Benchmarks

This cluster includes the following benchmarks
Code Description
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.


Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Points

Access Point Number Access Point Title
SS.912.S.4.AP.1: Recognize an effect on the individual by the different social groups to which they belong.
SS.912.S.4.AP.2: Recognize a major characteristic of a social group familiar to the students.
SS.912.S.4.AP.3: Recognize a way that groups function.
SS.912.S.4.AP.4: Identify a social norm of a group to which the student belongs.
SS.912.S.4.AP.5a: Recognize an effect when a rule of behavior is broken.
SS.912.S.4.AP.5b: Identify a consequence for unacceptable behavior.
SS.912.S.4.AP.6a: Recognize a type of norm.
SS.912.S.4.AP.6b: Recognize a reason these rules of behavior are considered important to society.
SS.912.S.4.AP.7a: Recognize a characteristic of deviance
SS.912.S.4.AP.7b: Identify an example of how society discourages deviant behavior using social control.
SS.912.S.4.AP.8a: Identify an example of a student's primary group.
SS.912.S.4.AP.8b: Identify an example of a student's secondary group.
SS.912.S.4.AP.8c: Recognize a way in which group membership can influence a student's behavior
SS.912.S.4.AP.9: Recognize a way formal organizations influence the behavior of their members.
SS.912.S.4.AP.10: Recognize an example of the level of assimilation that an ethnic, cultural, and social group achieve with the United States culture.
SS.912.S.4.AP.11: Identify an example of how humans interact in a variety of social settings.
SS.912.S.4.AP.12: Recognize the cultural pattern of behavior within a social group.
SS.912.S.4.AP.13a: Recognize an idea about citizenship and cultural participation of a social group from the past.
SS.912.S.4.AP.13b: Recognize an idea about citizenship and cultural participation of a social group of the present community.