Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.8

SS24.S.8 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.S.8a

  Compare how authority is perceived in legitimate power and coercive power leadership styles.*

• SS24.S.8b

  Differentiate among Weber’s three types of authority (charismatic, rational-legal, and traditional) in respect to source of power and leadership style.*

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how governments, houses of worship, schools, and volunteer groups meet community needs. They tell whether people follow a leader because they accept the leader's right to lead or fear punishment. They identify authority based on custom, personal appeal, or formal rules.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a hereditary ruler, an appointed principal, and an admired organizer, students name the source of each leader's authority and point to a clue. They can explain that a principal's office gives them authority, while a threat of detention uses coercion. They can name a need each institution meets.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think houses of worship only hold services or that volunteer groups have no rules. They may treat a principal's accepted authority and a threat of detention as the same kind of power. They may confuse authority based on family custom, personal appeal, and written rules.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Match a government, house of worship, school, and volunteer food pantry to one need each. Then label the authority behind a hereditary ruler, an appointed principal, and an admired organizer, and explain why a threat of detention is coercive.

1. 01

   Give pairs cards labeled city council, mosque, high school, and volunteer food pantry; have them match each card to a community need.

2. 02

   Ask: When a principal announces a phone rule, do students comply because they accept school rules or fear detention? Discuss both possibilities.

3. 03

   Play a three-corner game: read profiles of a hereditary ruler, an appointed judge, and an admired organizer; students choose the matching authority corner.

4. 04

   Use a local food bank flyer and a school handbook to compare how each group sets rules and organizes people.

• SS24.S.11c

  Explain the role of social institutions in fostering change and reinforcing stratification.*

• SS24.S.1b

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

• SS24.1.3

  Explain the role of commercial institutions within the local community, including banks, grocery stores, and other businesses.

• SS24.K.1b

  Explain how rules meet needs and provide order, security, and safety in the home, school, and community.