Social Decision Making

Social Decision Making

Objectives

• Define what is meant by the term citizen.

• List 3 different types of citizens.
  

• Identify what success in Civics might include, by establishing goals and rules that enable success.
  

• Define democracy and democratic decision-making.

• Define autocracy and autocratic decision-making. 

• Define consensus and consensual/collaborative decision-making.

• Identify the type of decision making used in everyday examples.
  

• Discuss how decisions are made in everyday examples.

• Explain why there are different models for different situations.

• Explain how you think decisions should be made.

Citizen:

a member of a state or nation who is given certain rights, such as the right to vote.  Citizen can be broken into 3 different types:

Informed, Active, and Global

The Informed Citizen is:

committed to democratic values and decision-making knowledgeable and informed about how the Canadian government operates

The Active Citizen is:

committed to political and social change within Canada sees the necessity of reform at the local, provincial, or national level, and uses democratic methods to try to bring about change

The Global Citizen:

committed to change at the international level, believes that we are interconnected with nations and people around the world, and that their actions and concerns ultimately affect us

How does society make decisions?

Answer the questions on the following slides

Open Ended

What are your goals in this course?

Open Ended

Who will ensure that these goals are met?

Open Ended

How do we ensure that most goals are met?

Wait until  Mr Creech tells you to proceed

Discussion Points

• What goals were held in common?

• What goals were different?

• Were the goals realistic?

• What rules would have to be agreed on if these goals were to be achieved?

As a whole class, we must now select five main goals from all the ideas that have been presented.  How will we decide?

Multiple Choice

The principal decides that students have been behaving wonderfully, and provides a free pizza lunch for everyone in the school

• Democratic decision-making

• Autocratic decision-making

• Consensual / Collaborative decision-making

Multiple Choice

The Grade 10 class has been asked to vote for a candidate to sit on the Student Council.

• Democratic decision-making

• Autocratic decision-making

• Consensual / Collaborative decision-making

Multiple Choice

The presidents of the parent and student councils, the principal, and a teacher representative agree on a new code of conduct for the student body.

• Democratic decision-making

• Autocratic decision-making

• Consensual / Collaborative decision-making

Multiple Choice

A family is trying to decide how household duties will be shared.

• Democratic decision-making

• Autocratic decision-making

• Consensual / Collaborative decision-making

Multiple Choice

A basketball team must decide who will be the starting players for the game

• Democratic decision-making

• Autocratic decision-making

• Consensual / Collaborative decision-making

Multiple Choice

A class is trying to choose one activity for fundraising.

• Democratic decision-making

• Autocratic decision-making

• Consensual / Collaborative decision-making

Multiple Choice

A group of friends is deciding what movie to go and see.

• Democratic decision-making

• Autocratic decision-making

• Consensual / Collaborative decision-making

Multiple Choice

A group of friends is deciding what movie to go and see.

• Democratic decision-making

• Autocratic decision-making

• Consensual / Collaborative decision-making

Multiple Choice

A principal is asking for input on the recent rash of locker break-ins.

• Democratic decision-making

• Autocratic decision-making

• Consensual / Collaborative decision-making