Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.10b
The Standard
- SS24.S.10
- Explain the relationship between social stratification and social class, including status ascription versus achievement, intergenerational social mobility, and structural occupational change.*
Analyze the impact of social stratification on groups and individuals.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Social Issues and Social Change
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare how wealth, status, and connections affect access to housing, schools, and jobs. They explain how those differences can shape a person's choices and create patterns across groups.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given two fictional households, students identify a specific advantage or barrier for each and explain a likely effect. They use evidence without assuming everyone in an income group has the same experience.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat income as the whole story and overlook savings, connections, or access to transportation. They may assume poverty is always a personal choice or that every person in a group faces the same barriers.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Compare job options for teens with a car and home internet and teens using the bus and library Wi-Fi. Name one likely effect for each group and explain why.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Deal pairs fictional household cards listing wages, savings, bus routes, and school options; have students place job and housing choice cards for each.
Ask students to write: How could two equally qualified applicants face different job options when one has a car and one does not?
Play a card sort matching barriers, such as high rent or limited bus service, to possible outcomes; have students defend one match.
Compare median income and homeownership rates for two counties on Census QuickFacts; ask what the figures show and what they cannot prove.
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Related Standards
- SS24.S.11c
Explain the role of social institutions in fostering change and reinforcing stratification.*
- SS24.S.7
Analyze how different types of social groups can influence individual and group behavior.*
- SS24.S.10
Explain the relationship between social stratification and social class, including status ascription versus achievement, intergenerational social mobility, and ...
- SS24.S.10a
Identify common patterns of social stratification in American society.
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