Discussion
Assertion (A) : Male characters in stories and books are often presented as strong and adventurous while female characters are shown as warm and sensitive.
Reason (R) : Schools and curriculum influence gender-role identity as they are powerful agents of secondary socialization.
Choose the correct option :
Answer: C
The key takes both (A) and (R) as true, with (R) the correct explanation of (A).
(A) is a well documented observation: stories and textbooks often show male characters as strong and adventurous and female characters as warm and sensitive.
(R) is also true: after the family, the school and its curriculum are powerful agents of secondary socialisation and shape children's gender-role identity. The key reads the two together: because schools and curricula transmit society's gender roles, the books they use present characters in these stereotyped ways, and those portrayals are one of the channels through which gender-role identity is shaped. On that reading (R) explains (A), rather than the two being unrelated truths.
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