Contemporary Social Issues
Unit 3: Socialization & Adolescence
Day
Topic
Agenda
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Socialization
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Agents of Socialization Notes
Agents of Socialization Discussion
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Socialization
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Feral Children Case Study: Genie the Wild Girl
Agents of Socialization
Journal
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Socialization
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Experiments in Socialization Notes
Experiments in Socialization Discussion
India Wolf Boy Article
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Socialization
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Personality Development Notes
Personality Development Discussion
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Socialization
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Twin Studies Video Clips
Mirror Image Twins Article
30
Socialization
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Kohlberg’s Stages of Morality Development
Notes
Moral Dilemmas & Discussion
Begin Marijuana Debate
Argument
Finish Paragraph
Kohlberg Practice WS
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Socialization
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Kohlberg’s Stages Posters
Kohlberg’s Stages Paragraph
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Socialization
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Review Kohlberg Practice WS
St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised By Wolves
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Socialization
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Agents of Socialization Quiz
Reading: Rites of Passage Around the World
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Adolescence
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Discuss Rites of Passage Article
Adolescence PPT
Defining Childhood, Adolescence, & Adulthood
Activity
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Adolescence
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Discuss Defining Activity Results
Article: “Adolescence & The Myth of
Independence”
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Adolescence
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Marijuana Debate
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Unit Exam
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Unit 3 Exam: Socialization & Adolescence
Assignments Due
HW Assigned
Agents of Socialization
Journal
Kohlberg’s Stages
Paragraph
Kohlberg Practice WS
India Wolf Boy Article
Study for Quiz!
Finish Rites of Passage
Questions
Rites of Passage
Questions
Marijuana Debate
Argument
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
 How do people learn to behave in their
 The agents of socialization – family, friends, community, media, religion,
culture?
education – teach people directly and indirectly how to behave in society.
 What distinctions mark the transition
 Different cultures require different rites of passage from childhood to
from childhood to adulthood in different
adulthood.
societies?
Supplemental Materials & Links
 Genie: Secret of the Wild Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdycJQi4QA [55 min]
 Moral Dilemmas http://www.friesian.com/valley/dilemmas.htm
 Rights of Passage https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/13-amazing-coming-of-age-traditions-from-around-th/
Standards
 New Jersey Social Studies Standards
 6.1.12.D.14.f Determine the influence of multicultural beliefs, products, and practices in shaping contemporary American
culture
 6.1.12.A.16.a Examine the impact of media and technology on political and social issues in a global society
 6.2.12.C.6.d Determine how the availability of scientific, technological, and medical advances impacts the quality of life in
different countries
 6.3.12.D.1 Analyze the impact of current governmental practices and laws affecting national security and/or individual civil
rights/privacy
 Georgia Sociology Standards
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SSSocFR2: Explain the research methodologies used in sociology.
SSSocSC1: Explain the process of socialization.
Common Core: Social Studies Literacy Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.6 Evaluate authors' differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the
authors' claims, reasoning, and evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.9 Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent
understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid
reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and
information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a
self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on
the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups,
and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their
own clearly and persuasively.
Focus of Instruction:
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Nature and nurture
Agents of socialization
Feral children
Determinants of personality: heredity, birth order, parental characteristics, cultural environment
Theories of personality: Freud, Cooley, tabula rasa
Development of Morality (Kohlberg)
Adolescent development & Rites of Passage
Benchmarks:
1. Differentiate between nature and nurture
2. Describe how nature and nurture both interact in the development of humans citing several specific examples of
experiments, agents of socialization, or feral children that demonstrate both
3. Differentiate between Freud’s id, ego, and superego and apply them to an anecdote of their own lives
4. Describe their level of moral development according to Kohlberg’s theories.
5. Analyze the many theories of personality and describe which they find most likely and why
6. Judge the ethics of the Skeels and Dye study, Harlow experiment, or feral children studies. Were the lessons
about socialization worth the costs?
7. Describe how adolescence differs from childhood and adulthood.
8. Compare rites of passage in tribal cultures and the United States, applying the concepts of socialization and
cultural relativism to analyze them.
Assessment Methods:
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List the agents of socialization & impacts they had on your life
Debate effect of media on childhood development
Discuss socialization & feral children after watching The Wild Child
Agents of Socialization Quiz
Morality questions Moral Dilemmas
Read Mirror, Mirror
Analyze Kohlberg’s morality stages
Write a short story describing Freud’s id, ego, and superego
Multimedia Project: Which is more important- nature or nurture? Or focus on agents of socialization or
experiments in personality
10. Paper: Relate your life to one of the themes of adolescence discussed in class and viewed in The Breakfast Club