Chapter 3:
Cultural Conformity and Adaptation / Notes:
Key Questions:
What are the basic values that form the foundation of American culture?
How are the norms of society enforced?
What are the differences between positive and negative sanctions and between formal and informal sanctions?
What are the main sources of social change?
What factors lead people to resist social change? / Skills and Outcomes: When students have finished studying this topic, they will know and be able to:
- Preview Section 1: What do we value as Americans? Do values change over time or do they stay the same in a specific culture?
- Choose one of the traditional American values laid out by Robin Williams. Create a collage to represent this value.
- ReadOur Changing Values and answer: How have American values changed in the last 30 years? What do you see happening in the future?
- Preview Section 2: Create a T-chart of Rewards and Punishments that you encounter in your daily life.
- Vocabulary Organizer: Section 2
- G.O.: In a g.o., list 10-15 norms. Then identify the formal and informal, positive and negative sanctions that society uses to enforce these norms.
- Interpreting Maps on pp. 52.
- Preview Section 3: Vocabulary Organizer
- What factors cause social change in a society? What factors cause things to stay the same?
- Analyze the sources of social change in a g.o. Have students provide specific examples of each of the sources of social change. Then list social consequences of each examples. (ie. Compact disc)
- List and Describe examples of social movements. We will talk more about these in chapters to come.
- Find an historical example of Resistance to Social Change. Describe why people resisted change and what the outcome was.
Content: Unit 1,
Chapter 4:
Social Structure / Notes:
Key Questions:
What are the two major components of social structure?
How do these two components of social structure affect human interaction?
What are the most common types of social interaction?
Which types of interactions stabilize social structure and which can disrupt it?
What types of societies exist in the world today?
What roles do individuals play in these models of group systems?
What are the major features of primary and secondary groups?
What purposes do groups fulfill? / Skills and Outcomes: When students have finished studying this topic, they will know and be able to:
- Preview Section 1: Vocabulary Organizer
- G.O. Social Structure. Have students choose at least 5 statuses that they now occupy. Which would they consider their master status and why? What happens when there is role conflict or strain?
- Group: In groups of 2 or 3, choose one of the social institutions discussed in this chapter. Find pictures to depict the statuses and roles associated with this institution.
- Preview Section 2: Vocabulary Organizer
- G.O.: List and give examples of the five different types of social interaction.
- Current Event: Have each student find and bring in an example of social interaction from the news. Include a brief explanation of the story and which of the interaction types it is an example of.
- Preview Section 3: Vocabulary Organizer
- Illustrate one of the types of societies. Include a brief description of the society. Be prepared to share in class.
- Preview Section 4: Vocabulary
- Preview: List all the groups that you belong to.
- G.O.: For each group that you belong to, tell if it is formal or informal, primary or secondary, a dyad/triad/small group.
- Preview Section 5: Vocabulary
- Article: Government Bureaucracies
- Create a visual to represent what a bureaucracy is and how one is structured.
- Lord of the Flies????