Oklahoma Social Studies S.2

S.2 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• S.2.1

  Describe the components of culture, including norms and values, material and non-material care.

• S.2.2

  Explain the process of the social construction of the self, including the ways individuals are socialized by culture, such as sanctions.

• S.2.3

  Analyze how culture influences individuals, including the mechanisms of ethnocentrism, cultural relativity, and culture shock.

• S.2.4

  Describe various subcultures, counter cultures, and social movements, and explain their influence according to sociological perspectives.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify objects, norms, and values in a culture. They explain how rewards and penalties shape a person's sense of self, and how people respond to unfamiliar customs. They explain how subcultures, countercultures, and social movements affect society from different sociological viewpoints.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a school example, a student can name a physical object, an unwritten rule, a shared belief, and a sanction. They can explain culture shock without calling an unfamiliar custom wrong. They can compare how conflict theory and symbolic interactionism would explain a student protest.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may confuse values with objects or think sanctions are always punishments. They may mistake culture shock for ethnocentrism, or think understanding a custom in context means approving it. They may call any group with shared interests a counterculture, even if it rejects no wider norm.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A student is teased for speaking a home language at school, then joins an organized campaign for bilingual signs. Name the sanction, explain how it might shape the student's self-image, and identify the campaign as a social movement or subculture.

1. 01

   Sort cards showing a phone, handshake, privacy, and detention into material culture, norms, values, and sanctions.

2. 02

   Discuss a visitor surprised by a host family's no-shoes rule: What might an ethnocentric response sound like, and what could the visitor ask instead?

3. 03

   Match a skateboard club, anti-consumerist commune, and organized school walkout to subculture, counterculture, or social movement; justify each match.

4. 04

   Read a school dress code and a student petition against it; explain the dispute through conflict theory and symbolic interactionism.

• S.3.3

  Analyze how culture influences individuals, including the mechanisms of ethnocentrism, cultural relativity, and culture shock.

• 4.C.2.4.B

  Explain how culture can affect the ways in which people live and how culture can change over time through cultural diffusion.

• 6.C.3.2

  Analyze how the characteristics of culture impact people and places.