Influences over Time 2. Viewpoints for Interpretation 3. Viewpoints for Interpretation and 5. Students understand similarities and differences across cultural perspectives, and evaluate the ways individuals, groups, societies, nations, and organizations change, and interact. Students understand culture as a system of beliefs, knowledge, and practices shared by a group.
Students understand and respect the myriad of ways that society addresses human needs and wants.
Students understand culture as dynamic, selective, adaptive, and ever changing. Students use the tools and methodology of social scientists to explain and interpret ideas and events. Students understand how distinct physical and human characteristics shape places and regions. Students understand how markets function and analyze the role of prices and incentives to realize how economic interactions affect human relations.