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Behavioral Studies Standards and Benchmarks
Behavioral Studies Standard and Benchmarks Standard 1:
Understands that group and cultural influences contribute to human development, identity, and behavior
Level III (Grade 6-8)
- Understands that usually within any society there is broad general agreement on what behavior is "unacceptable," but that the standards used to judge behavior vary for different settings and different subgroups and may change with time and in response to different political and economic conditions
- Understands that technology, especially in transportation and communication, is increasingly important in spreading ideas, values, and behavior patterns within a society and among different societies
Level IV (Grade 9-12)
- Understands that cultural beliefs strongly influence the values and behavior of the people who grow up in the culture, often without their being fully aware of it, and that people have different responses to these influences
Behavioral Studies Standard and Benchmarks Standard 3:
Understands that interactions among learning, inheritance, and physical development affect human behavior
Level III (Grade 6-8)
- Knows that some animal species are limited to a repertoire of genetically determined behaviors and others have more complex brains and can learn a wide variety of behaviors
Level IV (Grade 9-12)
- Understands that people might ignore evidence that challenges their beliefs and more readily accept evidence that supports them
Knows that human thinking involves the interaction of ideas, and ideas about ideas
- Behavioral Studies Standard and Benchmarks Standard 4:
Understands conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among individuals, groups, and institutions
Level III (Grade 6-8)
- Understands how various institutions (e.g., banks, schools, hospitals, the military) influence people, events, and elements of culture and how people interact with different institutions
- Understands how tensions might arise between expressions of individuality and group or institutional efforts to promote social conformity
Level IV (Grade 9-12)
- Understands that conflict between people or groups may arise from competition over ideas, resources, power, and/or status
- Understands that social change, or the prospect of it, promotes conflict because social, economic, and political changes usually benefit some groups more than others (which is also true of the status quo)
- Understands that conflicts are especially difficult to resolve in situations in which there are few choices and little room for compromise
- Understands that even when the majority of people in a society agree on a social decision, the minority who disagree must be protected from oppression, just as the majority may need protection against unfair retaliation from the minority
- Understands how various institutions (e.g., social, religious, political) develop and change over time (i.e., what is taught in school and school policies toward student behavior have changed over the years in response to family and community pressures), and how they further both continuity and change in societies
- Understands how changes in social and political institutions (e.g., church, school, political party) both reflect and affect individuals' career choices, values, and significant actions
- Understands that the decisions of one generation both provide and limit the range of possibilities open to the next generation
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