Assertion (A): The objective of teaching social studies at the primary stage is to critically examine social and economic issues and challenges like poverty, child labour, destitution, illiteracy, and various other dimensions of inequality.
Reasoning (R): Social Studies enable children to understand the society in which they live - to learn how society is structured, managed, and governed, and also about the forces seeking to transform and redirect society in various ways.
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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the incorrect explanation of (A)
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(A) is true but (R) is false
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(A) is false but (R) is true