1. NCSS Annual Conference
Sociology Standards Domain 2: Social Structure: Culture, Institutions, and Society
A Welcome from the ASA Team
Lessons and Teaching Resources
Hurricane Katrina Discussion
NCSS Annual Conference
Friday, November 13, 2015
New Orleans, LA

2. ASA National Standards for High School Sociology
First Part of the Document: Background and Content
Introduction
Why Sociology is Important
Development of the Standards
Using the National Standards
Learning Domains

3. ASA National Standards for High School Sociology
Second Part of the Document: How to Use Them
How the Standards Address Larger Curricular Goals
Future Considerations
Conclusions
Appendix: Enrichment Concepts
Contributors

4. Social Structure – Culture, Institutions and Society
Domain 2:
Social Structure – Culture, Institutions and Society

5. Domain 2: Social Structure – Culture, Institutions and Society
Assessable Competencies
Essential Concepts
2.1
Students will describe the components of culture.
  Nonmaterial culture, including norms and values
Material culture Subcultures
2.2
Students will analyze how culture influences individuals, including themselves.
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativity Culture shock American values
2.3
Students will evaluate important social institutions and how they respond to social needs.
Social institutions such as: family, education, religion, economy, and government Social statuses and roles
2.4
Students will assess how social institutions and cultures change and evolve.
Shifting historical context such as: industrial revolution, urbanization, globalization, the internet age Countercultures Social movements
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6. Domain 2: Social Structure – Culture, Institutions and Society
Assessable Competencies
Essential Concepts
2.1
Students will describe the components of culture.
  Nonmaterial culture, including norms and values
Material culture Subcultures
2.2
Students will analyze how culture influences individuals, including themselves.
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativity Culture shock American values
2.3
Students will evaluate important social institutions and how they respond to social needs.
Social institutions such as: family, education, religion, economy, and government Social statuses and roles
2.4
Students will assess how social institutions and cultures change and evolve.
Shifting historical context such as: industrial revolution, urbanization, globalization, the internet age Countercultures Social movements
Hayley will be sharing lessons for teaching about culture, including a norm violation exercise

7. Domain 2: Social Structure – Culture, Institutions and Society
Assessable Competencies
Essential Concepts
2.1
Students will describe the components of culture.
  Nonmaterial culture, including norms and values
Material culture Subcultures
2.2
Students will analyze how culture influences individuals, including themselves.
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativity Culture shock American values
2.3
Students will evaluate important social institutions and how they respond to social needs.
Social institutions such as: family, education, religion, economy, and government Social statuses and roles
2.4
Students will assess how social institutions and cultures change and evolve.
Shifting historical context such as: industrial revolution, urbanization, globalization, the internet age Countercultures Social movements
Chris will talk us through a series of class activities to help students consider how American values impact the way they see society and their own roles within society.

8. Domain 2: Social Structure – Culture, Institutions and Society
Assessable Competencies
Essential Concepts
2.1
Students will describe the components of culture.
  Nonmaterial culture, including norms and values
Material culture Subcultures
2.2
Students will analyze how culture influences individuals, including themselves.
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativity Culture shock American values
2.3
Students will evaluate important social institutions and how they respond to social needs.
Social institutions such as: family, education, religion, economy, and government Social statuses and roles
2.4
Students will assess how social institutions and cultures change and evolve.
Shifting historical context such as: industrial revolution, urbanization, globalization, the internet age Countercultures Social movements
Dennis will help make the importance of social institutions clear by describing what happened when key social institutions stopped working during hurricane Katrina.

9. Domain 2: Social Structure – Culture, Institutions and Society
Assessable Competencies
Essential Concepts
2.1
Students will describe the components of culture.
  Nonmaterial culture, including norms and values
Material culture Subcultures
2.2
Students will analyze how culture influences individuals, including themselves.
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativity Culture shock American values
2.3
Students will evaluate important social institutions and how they respond to social needs.
Social institutions such as: family, education, religion, economy, and government Social statuses and roles
2.4
Students will assess how social institutions and cultures change and evolve.
Shifting historical context such as: industrial revolution, urbanization, globalization, the internet age Countercultures Social movements

10. Introduction to TRAILS
Hayley Lotspeich, Wheaton North High School,

11. Domain 2: Lesson Plan Ideas
Social Structure: Culture, Institutions, and Society
From TRAILS
Norm Violation Video Presentation (Author – Medora W. Barnes, John Caroll University)
Qualitative Methods – Cross Cultural Images (Author – Susan Goodrich Lehmann and Noah P. Schultz)
Sports and American Culture (Author – Jamie L. Gusrang, University of Connecticut)
Hayley Lotspeich, Wheaton North High School,

12. Lesson Plan Ideas for Domain 2
Social Structure: Culture, Institutions, and Society
From IntroSocSite
Guidelines for Write Up of Breaking A Social Norm Assignment
Culture – TV Media and Reality: An Observation
Hayley Lotspeich, Wheaton North High School,

13. Comparing American Values to Vulnerability with Your Sociological Imagination
Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School,

14. Culture and U.S. Values Robin Williams L. Robert Kohl
The Values Americans Live By
American Values                                                         vs. Other Cultures’ Values Personal control/responsibility                                    vs Fate/destiny Change seen as natural and positive/Progress            vs. Stability/tradition Time and its control                                                      vs. Human Interaction Equality/fairness                                                         vs. Hierarchy/rank/status Individualism/independence/freedom                           vs. Group welfare/dependence Self-Help/initiative                                                        vs. Birthright/inheritance Competition                                                                   vs. Cooperation Future orientation                                                         vs. Past orientation Action/work                                                                   vs. “Being” Informality                                                                    vs. Formality Directness/openness/Honesty                                       vs. Indirectness/ritual/”face” Practicality/efficiency                                                   vs. Idealism/theory Materialism/Acquisitiveness                                         vs. Spiritualism/detachment Achievement/Success                                                    vs. Acceptance/Status Quo Morality/judgement                                                      vs. Consequentialism/situational ethics Robin Williams (The sociologist, not the actor), studied American culture in the 1970s and came up with his own list of values, which is largely still applicable today.
Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School,

15. Use a Case Study Tuesdays with Morrie God Grew Tired of Us
Bemused in America
Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School,

16. Apply to Student’s Life
Make it experiential.
Close your eyes.  Think of someone influential in your life.  Now write down who you thought about and why you thought about that person.
Now take out your cell phones and call that person and read what you wrote.
Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School,

17. Science of Happiness
Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School,

18. For Discussion
How might American values of freedom, independence, individualism and personal control make it difficult to admit that we are dependent on other people?
Why might this unwillingness make it difficult to complete the exercise?
Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School,

19. For more information and resources, visit Sociology Sal

20. Domain 2: Social Structure: Culture, Institutions, and Society
“The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.”
C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
Dennis R. McSeveney , Ph.D. University of New Orleans,

21. Hurricane Katrina
Dennis R. McSeveney , Ph.D. University of New Orleans,

22. After the Levees Failed: Flooding in New Orleans
Dennis R. McSeveney , Ph.D. University of New Orleans,

23. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center – New Orleans
Dennis R. McSeveney , Ph.D. University of New Orleans,

24. 1372 Madrid Street, New Orleans, LA.
Dennis R. McSeveney , Ph.D. University of New Orleans,

25. Social Institutions Family Education Religion Economy Government
What happens when fundamental social institutions stop functioning?
Dennis R. McSeveney , Ph.D. University of New Orleans,

26. Family: FEMA Trailer Park

27. Kitchen, Dining, Bath, Bunks
Family: Housing for 8
Beds: Queen, Sofa, Table
Kitchen, Dining, Bath, Bunks

28. Church after School Center
Religion
St. John’s AME Church
Church after School Center

29. How to Contact Us Jean Shin, ASA, shin@asanet.org
Beth Floyd, ASA,
Margaret Weigers Vitullo, ASA,
Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School,
Hayley Lotspeich, Wheaton North High School,
Dennis R. McSeveney, University of New Orleans,
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