Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.5

SS24.S.5 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.S.5a

  Explain the value of utilizing birth cohorts as a research device.

• SS24.S.5b

  Differentiate among primary, secondary, and adult socialization and identify the key influences of socialization for each stage.

• SS24.S.5c

  Investigate and explain the impact of psychological theories that influence sociology, including Erikson’s Psychosocial Development, Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral ...

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What Students Need to Do

Students compare how roles and expectations change from birth through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle age, and late adulthood. They identify who teaches people new roles at each phase and use birth cohorts and development theories to explain patterns.

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What Mastery Looks Like

Students compare life phases and sort learning at home, at school, and in new adult roles as primary, secondary, and adult socialization. They use birth cohorts to spot shared historical influences without assuming everyone has the same experience. They apply Erikson to identity, Kohlberg to moral choices, Piaget to thinking, and Vygotsky to learning with others.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may treat parenthood as a required phase or assume everyone reaches milestones at the same age. They may confuse a birth cohort with people who are the same age today. They may also treat moral reasoning, thinking, and learning with others as one process rather than distinct ideas.

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How to Assess It

Give students this case: “A 16-year-old learns lab rules from classmates; a 72-year-old learns video calls from a neighbor.” Ask them to name each life phase and type of socialization, identify a theory that explains learning with others, and give one reason to group people by birth year.

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   Give groups age cards and role cards; have them build a life timeline and mark which roles, including parenthood, are optional.

2. 02

   Ask students to write how Erikson would explain a teen's search for identity and Kohlberg would explain the teen's choice to report cheating.

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   Play a sorting relay with scenario cards for primary, secondary, and adult socialization; teams name the parent, peer, teacher, or employer involved.

4. 04

   Use a 1990 and a current school supply ad to predict how students' shared school experiences differ across birth cohorts.

• SS24.HG.8

  Compare and contrast the roles of men and women in societies around the world, including matrilineal and patrilineal societies.

• SS24.P.9

  Describe cognitive, physical, and social development across the human lifespan, citing theories of Carol Gilligan, Erik H. Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lawrence Ko...

• SS24.P.4

  Compare the effects of heredity and environment on development and behavior.*