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1 ) Describe the development of sociology as a social science field of study. • Identifying important figures in the field of sociology, including Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, George Herbert Mead, and W. E. B. Du Bois
• Identifying characteristics of sociology, including functional integration, power, social action, social structure, and culture
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2 ) Explain methods and tools of research used by sociologists to study human society, including surveys, polls, statistics, demographic information, case studies, participant observations, and program evaluations. • Differentiating between qualitative and quantitative research methods
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3 ) Describe how values and norms influence individual behavior. • Comparing ways in which cultures differ, change, and resist change, including countercultures, subcultures, and ethnocentric beliefs
• Comparing the use of various symbols within and across societies
Examples: objects, gestures, sounds, images • Explaining the significance of socialization in human development
• Illustrating key concepts of socialization, including self-concept, looking-glass self, significant others, and role-taking
• Determining the role of family, school, peer groups, and the media in socializing young people
• Explaining the process of socialization in adulthood
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4 ) Identify antisocial behaviors, including social deviance, addiction, terrorism, anomie, and related arguments for the strain theory and the conflict theory. • Contrasting violent crime, property crime, and victimless crime with white-collar crime
• Comparing methods for dealing with antisocial behavior, including imprisonment, restitution, community service, rehabilitation, education, and therapy
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5 ) Describe how environment and genetics affect personality, including self-concept and temperament. |
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6 ) Identify stages of development across the life cycle, including birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle age, and late adulthood. • Describing the value of birth cohorts as a research device
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7 ) Describe types and characteristics of groups. • Explaining the relationship between social stratification and social class, including status ascription versus achievement, intergenerational social mobility, and structural occupational change
• Relating the importance of group dynamics, including size, leadership, decision making, and gender roles
• Distinguishing between the terms, race and ethnicity and prejudice and discrimination
• Describing social inequalities experienced as related to gender and age
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8 ) Describe the structure and function of the family unit, including traditional, extended, nuclear, single-parent, and blended families involving the roles of parent, child, and spouse. • Identifying problems facing families, including abuse, divorce, teen pregnancy, poverty, addiction, family violence, and care of elderly family members
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9 ) Explain the purpose of social systems and institutions, including schools, churches, voluntary associations, and governments. • Describing origins and beliefs of various religions
• Distinguishing among the concepts of power, coercion, and authority
• Comparing charismatic, traditional, and rational-legal authority
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10 ) Describe social movement and social change. • Comparing various forms of collective behavior, including mobs, riots, fads, and crowds
• Identifying major ethical and social issues facing modern society
Examples: technological, governmental, medical • Explaining the impact of the modern Civil Rights Movement, the women's movement, the gun rights movement, the green movement, and other minority movements in the United States
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11 ) Contrast population patterns using the birth rate, death rate, migration rate, and dependency rate. • Identifying the impact of urbanization on human social patterns
• Analyzing factors that affect the depletion of natural resources for their impact on social and economic development
• Projecting future population patterns
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