Miss Lynch
6th Grade Social Studies
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Three basic needs are: food, clothing, and
shelter.
What else does a society need to provide its
members?
◦ Protection against outside groups
◦ Maintain cooperation among its members
◦ Raise and educate its young people
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Customs are:
◦ A societies pattern of behavior to meet their needs.
◦ The ways that members of a society do things.
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Customs include:
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What they eat
How they dress
How they build their homes
Holidays they celebrate
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Roles
◦ Based on rules for the proper behavior of
individuals in particular positions and situations.
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Gender Roles
◦ Are roles that are assigned separately to men and
women.
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Organizations, known as institutions, are
developed by each society to make social
roles clear and take care of social needs. The
main types are:
◦ Families
◦ Schools
◦ Government
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People who shares similar wealth and power are
usually in the same social class.
There are several types of social classes:
◦ Upper-Class: group that often inherits wealth and is in
leadership
◦ Middle Class: group is educated and successful
◦ Working Class: group is made up of manual labor
workers.
◦ Peasants: farm workers with little education.
◦ Lower Class: group is uneducated and unskilled, often
poor.
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Social Mobility
◦ The ability to move from one class to the other.
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Every society has a set of beliefs, which are
often closely tied to religion
Most religions have 3 common elements:
1. A set of beliefs about the nature of the universe
and the existence of God/gods.
2. A set of practices relating to worship and proper
conduct in life.
3. An organization, such as a church, which
oversees the conduct of religious practices.