Unit Eight Summary



Unit Eight has explored:

  • how one's worldview and one's ideology shapes individual and collective citizenship
  • the rights, roles, and responsibilities of citizens in a democratic society through a focus on the issue question, To what extent should my actions as a citizen by shaped by an ideology?
This unit completes your high school social studies education. Through your study of identity and citizenship, you should have formed a deeper understanding who you are, including not only the factors that have shaped your character, but also an understanding of where you belong in your world and the responsibilities that belonging entails.

Worldviews and Ideology Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Citizenship
  • Worldviews are both individual and collective and influence peoples' ideology.
  • Belief in a particular ideology shapes peoples' ideas about their roles as citizens in their community, nation, and world.
  • Citizens in a democracy have certain fundamental rights guaranteed to them by their constitution.
  • The role of a citizen in a democracy includes respect for law and order, dissent, civility, political parties, and citizen advocacy.
  • Citizens may have various rights, roles, and responsibilities during times of crisis.
  • Individuals may demonstrate their citizenship in various ways including participation in anti-war movements, civil rights movements, pro-democracy movements, anti-globalization movements, and persecution of those holding ideologies they believe are dangerous.
  • Leadership as citizens can be demonstrated in many ways. Responsible citizenship is seen through both individual and collective action.
  • The way each person enacts his or her citizenship depends on the beliefs and values behind his or her ideology.



Review your notes for this course.

When you have finished reviewing your notes, complete the Unit Review for Unit Five. When you have completed the multiple choice review, take a look at the feedback provided. If you so choose, after waiting 30 minutes, you may complete the quiz again, keeping in mind that the questions and the order of the possible answers are randomly generated. The second version of the review will be different from the first.


You have now completed all the course work for Social Studies 30-1. It is time to prepare for Final Exam, the second supervised exam in this course. The Final Exam includes all concepts you have studied in Units Five through Eight on the multiple choice.  It does not cover the first four units of the course. The position paper and the source based response are cumulative in that you can use any relevant information about liberalism and other ideologies. You get 3 hours to write this exam.

...and remember the Diploma Examination


You must write the Provincial Diploma Exam on the dates prescribed by Alberta Education before you receive credits in SS30-1