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Behavioral Studies

Standards

  1. Understands that group and cultural influences contribute to human development, identity, and behavior
  2. Understands various meanings of social group, general implications of group membership, and different ways that groups function
  3. Understands that interactions among learning, inheritance, and physical development affect human behavior
  4. Understands conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among individuals, groups, and institutions

    Topics

    1.Art in culture/society
    2.Bias, meaning, and perspective
    3.Characteristics of groups
    4.Comparative analysis of culture and societies
    5.Conflicts among values and principles in American political and social life
    6.Conventions and mores of groups
    7.Convergence and divergence of cultures
    8.Cooperation and conflict
    9.Creation of individual and group identity
    10.Cultural diffusion, adaptation, and interaction
    11.Cultural effects on behavior
    12.Development of cultural identity
    13.Diplomacy and mediation
    14.Effect of inheritance and physical development on behavior
    15.Experience and learning
    16.Family and gender roles
    17.Fundamentals of culture
    18.Group and national identity
    19.Group behavior
    20.Group membership
    21.Historical change and continuity
    22.Human potential and learning
    23.Individual and group identity
    24.Individual development and identity
    25.Inheritance, physical development, and behavior
    26.Learning and behavior
    27.Learning strategies and techniques
    28.Popular culture
    29.Racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination
    30.Religion, belief systems, and values
    31.Scope and limit of rights
    32.Sensory perception
    33.Social change
    34.Social class structure and interactions
    35.Social conflict
    36.Social groups
    37.Transmission of family heritage and culture
    38.Transportation and communication networks
    39.Types of social institutions