Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.6b
The Standard
- SS24.S.6
- Identify and describe human behaviors that deviate from social norms.*
Trace how society has reacted to deviant behaviors throughout history and explain the theoretical principles of punishment, including retributive, rehabilitative, and deterrent.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Self and Socialization
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students track how communities have responded to behavior they disapprove of across different periods. They explain whether a penalty is meant to punish a past act, change behavior, or discourage future offenses.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given dated examples of responses to theft, students explain how public attitudes and penalties changed. They can identify retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence, and explain when a response serves more than one goal.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think all behavior called deviant is illegal, even though some behavior only breaks social norms. They may assume a prison sentence has just one purpose or that counseling means no penalty.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A colonial court publicly shames someone for theft; a present-day court orders counseling and repayment for theft. Explain one change and name a punishment goal for each response.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs dated cards describing colonial public shaming, 1800s prisons, and modern diversion programs; students build a timeline and label punishment goals.
Ask students to write three sentences comparing public punishment for theft with a modern theft diversion program. What changed, and why?
Play Goal Sort with cards reading 'deserved sentence,' 'counseling to change behavior,' and 'fine to warn others'; students label and defend each goal.
Show a photo of a littering fine sign; students explain how the posted fine might change behavior and whether it repairs the harm.
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Related Standards
- SS24.S.6
Identify and describe human behaviors that deviate from social norms.*
- SS24.S.6a
Analyze deviance from each of the three sociological perspectives (interactionist, functional, and conflict).
- SS24.S.5c
Investigate and explain the impact of psychological theories that influence sociology, including Erikson’s Psychosocial Development, Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral ...
- SS24.P.11b
Explain the law of effect, and differentiate between reinforcement and punishment, positive and negative reinforcement, and various schedules of reinforcement.
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