Essential Standards

These Essential Standards are the district required standards that were collectively selected by teachers in Alpine School District. You are NOT limited to teaching only essential standards. Essential Standards are meant to provide equity throughout the district and will be used to guide our district's common assessments.

Knowledge

  • Social Structure

  • Social Relationships

  • Stratification & Inequality

Skills

  • Media Literacy

  • Collaboration & Creativity

  • Perspective Taking & Critical Thinking

Dispositions

  • Citizenship

  • Empathy

  • Self-Awareness

SOC 3.1 - Students will describe the process of socialization across the life course.

SOC 2.4 - Students will assess how social institutions and cultures change and evolve.

SOC 4.2 - Students will analyze the effects of social inequality on groups and individuals.


Suggested Curriculum Flow

Strand 2 - Structure: Culture, Institutions, and Society

  • 2.1 - Students will describe the components of culture. - [KNOWLEDGE]

  • 2.2 - Students will analyze how culture influences individuals, including themselves. - [KNOWLEDGE] [SKILLS] [DISPOSITIONS]

  • 2.3 - Students will evaluate important social institutions and how they respond to social needs. - [KNOWLEDGE] [SKILLS] [DISPOSITIONS]

  • 2.4 - Students will assess how social institutions and cultures change and evolve. - [KNOWLEDGE] [SKILLS]

Unit 3 - Social Relationships: Self, Groups, and Socialization

  • 3.1 - Students will describe the process of socialization across the life course. - [KNOWLEDGE]

  • 3.2 - Students will explain the process of the social construction of the self. - [KNOWLEDGE] [SKILLS]

  • 3.3 - Students will examine the social construction of groups and their impact on the life chances of individuals. - [KNOWLEDGE] [SKILLS] [DISPOSITIONS]

Unit 4 - Stratification and Inequality

  • 4.1 - Students will identify common patterns of social inequality. - [KNOWLEDGE]

  • 4.2 - Students will analyze the effects of social inequality on groups and individuals. - [KNOWLEDGE] [SKILLS]

  • 4.3 - Students will explain the relationship between social institutions and inequality. - [KNOWLEDGE] [SKILLS]

  • 4.4 - Students will assess responses to social inequality. - [KNOWLEDGE] [SKILLS] [DISPOSITIONS]

Resources: Sociology

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