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Standard 5 : Social Institutions/Identify the effects of social institutions on individual and group behavior.
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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.
Cluster Information
Number:
SS.912.S.5
Title:
Social Institutions/Identify the effects of social institutions on individual and group behavior.
Type:
Standard
Subject:
Social Studies
Grade:
912
Strand
Sociology
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  • Portraits in Patriotism - Tatiana Menaker: Secondary School: Born in 1949, under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, Tatiana Menaker grew up in communist Soviet Union (now the Russian Federation), witnessing first-hand the inequalities that occurred under Stalin’s rule. “Refuseniks,” Tatiana and her family applied for permission to emigrate and became “Refuseniks” when they were denied permission to emigrate. Eventually, Tatiana engineered a plan that would allow her and her family to escape the Soviet Union.

  • Portraits in Patriotism - Lily Tang Williams: Secondary School: Lily Tang Williams was born in communist China during Mao Zedong’s rule. She witnessed Mao’s Cultural Revolution first hand as she was growing up. She was a member of the Young Pioneers and the Red Guard, but yearned to come to the United States to learn about and live in a democracy. In 1988, she was able to come to the United States for schooling and was granted asylum status.