Decision One:
Curriculum Map
Topic: Social Institutions – Unit 11
Key Learning(s):
Unit Essential Question(s):
Major institutions that shape society
Concept:
Family
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do families vary?
What are the characteristics
of families in the United
States?
What are recent trends in
marriages and families in
the United States?
Vocabulary:
Family, nuclear family,
family of orientation, family
of procreation, extended
family, kinship, monogamy,
polygamy, heterogamy,
dual-earner families,
sandwich generation,
voluntary childlessness,
What are the major social institutions?
How do each of the major social
institutions shape that society?
Grade: 11/12
Optional
Instructional Tools:
Textbook,
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Economic/Political
System
Education/Religion
Sports/Mass Media
Lesson Essential Questions:
What are the different economic
systems, and how are they
affected by political systems?
What effect have corporate
capitalism and globalization had
on US businesses?
How do political systems
exercise power?
What influences the U.S. political
system?
Vocabulary:
Lesson Essential Question
How do sociologists understand
education? What are some issues
in the American education system
today? How do sociologists view
religion? How do American
religious beliefs and practices
vary?
Lesson Essential Questions:
What distinguishes sport as a social
institution? Who do the three
sociological perspectives differ in how
they view sport’s impact on society?
How has mass media become a social
institution? What power does the
media exert on society and what are
the effects on social order?
Economic institutions, factors of
production, primary sector,
secondary sector, tertiary sector,
capitalism, socialism, law of
supply, law of demand, laissezfaire capitalism, free-enterprise
systems, communism,
corporation, oligopoly,
protectionism, free trade,
multinational, e-commerce,
political party, interest group,
power-elite-model, pluralist
model
Education, schooling, hidden
curriculum, tracking, charter
schools, school choice,
homeschooling, zero tolerance,
bilingual education,
Sacred, profane, religion, ritual,
animism, theism, monotheism,
polytheism, ethicalism, ecclesia,
denomination, sect, cult, religiosity,
secular, fundamentalism,
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Sport, secularization, rationalization,
stacking, Title IX, information society,
media convergence, knowledge-gap
hypothesis, digital divide, social capital,
spiral of silence, agenda setting,
gatekeepers, opinion leaders,
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