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A. Cultural Effects on Behavior
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- People can learn about others from direct experience, from the mass communications media, and from listening to other people talk about their work and their lives.
- People tend to feel uncomfortable with other people who dress, talk, or act very differently from themselves.
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B. Group Behavior
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- People often like or dislike other people because of membership in or exclusion from a particular social group.
- Different groups have different expectations for how their members should act.
- When acting together, members of a group and even people in a crowd sometimes do and say things, good or bad, that they would not do or say on their own.
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C. Social Change
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- Although rules at home, school, church, and in the community stay mostly the same, sometimes they change.
- Rules and laws can sometimes be changed by getting most of the people they affect to agree to change them.
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D. Social Tradeoffs
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- In making decisions, it helps to take time to consider the benefits and drawbacks of alternatives.
- In making decisions, benefits and drawbacks of alternatives can be taken into account more effectively if the people who will be affected are involved.
- Sometimes social decisions have unexpected consequences, no matter how carefully the decisions are made.
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E. Political and Economic Systems
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- People tend to live together in groups and therefore have to have ways of deciding who will do what.
- Services that everyone gets, such as schools, libraries, parks, mail service, and police and fire protection, are usually provided by government.
- There are not enough resources to satisfy all of the desires of all people, and so there has to be some way of deciding who gets what.
- Some jobs require more (or more expensive) training than others, some involve more risk, and some pay better.
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F. Social Conflict
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- Communicating the different points of view in a dispute can often help people to find a satisfactory compromise.
- Resolving a conflict by force rather than compromise can lead to more problems.
- One person's exercise of freedom may conflict with the freedom of others.
- If a conflict cannot be settled by compromise, it may be decided by a vote if everyone agrees to accept the results.
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G. Global Interdependence
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- Many of the things people eat and wear come from other countries, and people in those countries use things from this country.
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