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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 6 | Issue 1 | Year 2019 | Article Id. IJHSS-V6I1P106 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V6I1P106

Gender Differences in Social Development: A Study on School Going Children

Farzana Alim, Ayesha Farheen

Citation :

Farzana Alim, Ayesha Farheen, "Gender Differences in Social Development: A Study on School Going Children," International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 28-32, 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V6I1P106

Abstract

As children grow, they gain in physical competence, which leads to an independence in mobility that produce a pronounced change in their sociality and width of experience. Children in school going age (late childhood) begin to take small steps towards creating social groups, without their parents or family. Child social development plays an important role in shaping his/her personality.
The present paper attempts to find out whether social development varies with gender thus, a comparative study of girls and boys of school going age in terms of social development was done in schools affiliated to Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) board and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board. Both of these boards follow CBSE pattern.

Keywords

gender difference, social development.

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