Cluster Standards
This cluster includes the following benchmarks.
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- SS.912.S.5.1 : Identify basic social institutions and explain their impact on individuals, groups and organizations within society and how they transmit the values of society.
- SS.912.S.5.2 : Discuss the concept of political power and factors that influence political power.
- SS.912.S.5.3 : Discuss how societies recognize rites of passage.
- SS.912.S.5.4 : Investigate stereotypes of the various United States subcultures, such as “American Indian,” “American cowboys,” teenagers,” “Americans,” “gangs,” and “hippies,” from a world perspective.
- SS.912.S.5.5 : Define ethnocentrism and explain how it can be beneficial or destructive to a culture.
- SS.912.S.5.6 : Identify the factors that influence change in social norms over time.
- SS.912.S.5.7 : Use various resources to interpret information about cultural life in the United States and other world cultures, both in the past and today.
- SS.912.S.5.8 : Analyze the primary and secondary groups common to different age groups in society.
- SS.912.S.5.9 : Conduct research and analysis on an issue associated with social structure or social institutions.
- SS.912.S.5.10 : Identify both rights and responsibilities the individual has to primary and secondary groups.
- SS.912.S.5.11 : Demonstrate democratic approaches to managing disagreements and solving conflicts within a social institution.
- SS.912.S.5.12 : Explain how roles and role expectations can lead to role conflict.