Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.6a
The Standard
- SS24.S.6
- Identify and describe human behaviors that deviate from social norms.*
Analyze deviance from each of the three sociological perspectives (interactionist, functional, and conflict).
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Self and Socialization
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students examine a rule-breaking case through three different lenses. They look at how people label the behavior, what the rule does for a group, and who has the power to make and enforce it.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a school dress-code violation, a student can explain how a label may shape the student's reputation. They can also explain how the response reinforces a school norm and ask who wrote the rule and who faces penalties.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think deviance always means a crime. They may think the functional view approves of rule-breaking, or that the conflict view is about people arguing rather than unequal power.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A student gets detention for breaking a dress-code rule. Write three labeled sentences, one for how each perspective explains the rule or the school's response.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards showing labels, group norms, and rule makers in a dress-code case; have them place each card under one perspective.
Ask students to write: Who calls a dress-code violation wrong, what norm does the rule protect, and who gets to set it?
Play a three-lens relay: teams write one explanation per perspective for a town curfew violation, then check another team's answers.
Read a school dress-code policy and have students mark one rule, who enforces it, and who might face penalties under it.
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Related Standards
- SS24.S.7
Analyze how different types of social groups can influence individual and group behavior.*
- SS24.S.3a
Apply the major sociological theories to a situation and evaluate the differences in interpretations.
- SS24.S.6b
Trace how society has reacted to deviant behaviors throughout history and explain the theoretical principles of punishment, including retributive, rehabilitativ...
- SS24.S.3
Compare and contrast the three major sociological theories: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction.*
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