Standard 5: Social Institutions/Identify the effects of social institutions on individual and group behavior.

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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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This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Points

SS.912.S.5.AP.1a
Recognize a basic social institution.
SS.912.S.5.AP.1b
Identify an impact of a social institution on individuals, groups, and organizations.
SS.912.S.5.AP.1c
Identify a way social institutions transmit the values of society.
SS.912.S.5.AP.2a
Recognize a characteristic of political power.
SS.912.S.5.AP.2b
Recognize a factor that influences political power.
SS.912.S.5.AP.3
Recognize an example of a rite of passage of a society.
SS.912.S.5.AP.4
Recognize a stereotype of a United States subculture from a world perspective.
SS.912.S.5.AP.5a
Recognize a characteristic of ethnocentrism.
SS.912.S.5.AP.5b
Recognize a cultural consequence of ethnocentrism.
SS.912.S.5.AP.6
Recognize a factor that influences change in social norms over time.
SS.912.S.5.AP.7a
Identify a resource to interpret information about past cultural life in the United States and other world cultures.
SS.912.S.5.AP.7b
Identify a resource to interpret information about current cultural life in the United States and other world cultures.
SS.912.S.5.AP.8
Recognize a primary and secondary group common to a different age group in society.
SS.912.S.5.AP.9
Using a resource, identify a characteristic of an issue associated with social structure or social institutions.
SS.912.S.5.AP.10a
Recognize a right the individual has to a primary group.
SS.912.S.5.AP.10b
Recognize a responsibility the individual has to a primary group.
SS.912.S.5.AP.10c
Recognize a right the individual has to a secondary group.
SS.912.S.5.AP.10d
Recognize a responsibility the individual has to secondary group.
SS.912.S.5.AP.11
Participate in a democratic approach to managing disagreements and solving conflicts within a social institution.
SS.912.S.5.AP.12
Recognize a potential conflict related to a role and its role expectations.

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