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CTET 7 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 14

Topic: Gender

Q14

A child’s first experience as well as expectations of what it means to be a ‘girl’ or a ‘boy’ comes from

  1. (1) media
  2. (2) relatives
  3. (3) neighbourhood
  4. (4) familyCorrect answer

Solution.

CBSE answer: (4)

Answer: (4) family

  1. The family is the child's first agency of socialisation.
  2. Long before school or media, children watch who cooks, who earns, how sons and daughters are spoken to, which toys and clothes they get.
  3. From this they form their first ideas and expectations of what a 'girl' or a 'boy' should be.

Trap: media and neighbourhood matter later; the first experience comes from home.