Discussion
Assertion (A) : During adolescence the pressures to conform to gender expectations and follow conventions of feminity or masculinity increases.
Reason (R) : Gender and gender roles are determined biologically.
Choose the correct option.
Answer: C
The Assertion is true but the Reason is false.
Adolescence brings gender intensification: pressure from peers, family and media to conform to expectations of femininity or masculinity grows during these years, so the Assertion holds.
The Reason is false. Sex is biological, but gender and gender roles are socially constructed, learned through socialisation and varying across cultures and times. Because they are not biologically fixed, the Reason cannot be accepted, which rules out the two options calling it true and the option calling both false.
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