Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.10

SS24.S.10 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.S.10a

  Identify common patterns of social stratification in American society.

• SS24.S.10b

  Analyze the impact of social stratification on groups and individuals.*

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how differences in income, education, and jobs rank social classes in the United States. They compare status assigned at birth with status gained later, track class changes across generations, and explain how changing jobs affect people and groups.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given two family histories, students use income, education, and jobs to explain each family's class position. They identify assigned and earned statuses, compare generations, and explain who gains or loses opportunities when factory jobs disappear.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat class as income alone, overlooking education and job security. They may assume hard work always changes someone's class or blame a worker for losing a job when an industry shrinks. They may confuse a parent's promotion with mobility between generations.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A parent works a low-paid factory job; their child trains as a nurse and earns more as factory jobs shrink. Identify an assigned and an earned status, explain the family's class change, and name one barrier for laid-off workers seeking nursing jobs.

1. 01

   Hand out family cards listing birth circumstances, schooling, income, and jobs; students rank class positions and label assigned and earned statuses.

2. 02

   Ask: If two students earn the same degree but only one has family savings, how might their career options differ?

3. 03

   Sort four scenario cards, including a factory closure and a child entering nursing, into mobility, job-market change, both, or neither.

4. 04

   Use two local job ads, one for a nurse and one for a warehouse worker; compare training requirements and who can afford them.

• SS24.S.11c

  Explain the role of social institutions in fostering change and reinforcing stratification.*

• SS24.S.11

  Explain why social movements form, and identify the factors that produce large-scale social change as a result of these movements.*