Indiana Social Studies S.3.4
The Standard
Identify the goals of socialization (transmission of culture including values inculcation, self-control, and social control, appropriate role behavior, skills attainment).
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how people learn shared values, expected roles, and practical skills from family, school, and peers. They tell the difference between controlling their own behavior and following rules enforced by others.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a school or job scenario, a student names the goal and points to a detail that shows it. They can distinguish learning a value from learning a skill, and self-control from outside enforcement.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call every rule social control, even when someone follows it without being watched. They may mistake a skill, such as using a cash register, for a value, or assume people are born knowing social roles.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Ana learns that honesty matters at work, greets customers, uses the register, stays calm with a rude shopper, and follows a manager's lateness rule. Label the value, role, skill, self-control, and social control in her day.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards showing honesty, staying calm, detention, greeting customers, using a register, and a family holiday; have them sort each by goal.
Ask students: Why might someone put away a phone when no teacher is watching, and how is that different from obeying a phone ban?
Play a matching game with cards for detention, greeting clients, counting change, and keeping a promise; partners explain each match.
Use a grocery store job posting to mark expected skills and behavior, then discuss how new cashiers learn them.
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