Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.1b

Social StudiesGrades 9–12Sociology Overview

The Standard

SS24.S.1: Describe the development of sociology as a social science field of study.*

Identify and explain tenets of sociology, including functional integration, power, social action, social structure, and culture.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Sociology Overview

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain why people in a group act as they do. They show how linked roles, decisions, individual choices, rules, and shared habits shape a school day.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a lunch schedule change, a student explains how staff and schedules depend on each other and who controls the change. They distinguish a student's choice to join friends from a seating rule and a shared lunch custom.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think functional integration means everyone agrees, rather than different parts of a group relying on each other. They may call a seating chart culture or think power only means physical force. They may describe any movement as social action without explaining how it relates to other people.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: The principal moves lunch 20 minutes earlier. Give and label one example each of linked roles, power, a student's response to others, a standing rule, and a shared habit.

Lesson moves

Give pairs five cafeteria cards, a late bus delaying lunch, a principal's rule, seat swapping, assigned tables, and a Friday pizza custom, to sort.
Ask students to write: Who gains time when the principal changes lunch periods, who loses time, and how might students respond?
Read school scenario slips aloud; students mark a five-term bingo board and explain each match before claiming a square.
Have students observe the next lunch line and record a rule, a shared habit, and who decides when students enter.

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