Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.4b
The Standard
- SS24.S.4
- Explain how values and norms influence individual behavior.*
Illustrate and explain key concepts and goals of socialization, including self-concept, looking-glass self, significant others, and role-taking.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Self and Socialization
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how interactions help people learn what a group expects. They show how a person's view of themselves can change through influential relationships, imagined judgments, and taking another person's perspective.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a new player joining a team, students can identify the coach as a significant other and explain how the player's guess about the coach's opinion affects their self-concept. They can show how taking a teammate's perspective helps the player learn team expectations.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat the looking-glass self as what others actually think, rather than what someone imagines others think. They may think significant others must be romantic partners or confuse role-taking with simply copying someone else's actions.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A new cashier imagines her manager sees her as dependable, starts believing it, and considers a customer's view before replying. Identify the four concepts in the example and name one workplace expectation she is learning.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four index cards: 'I am reliable,' 'My coach's opinion matters,' 'I think my coach trusts me,' and 'How does my teammate feel?' Sort them by concept.
Ask, 'Can a student's guess about a teacher's opinion shape their confidence even when the guess is wrong?' Require one example.
Play a scenario match: read short situations aloud, and have teams hold up a term card and explain the clue they used.
Use a first-job training checklist to discuss how a new worker learns workplace expectations and responds to a customer's point of view.
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