Why is socialisation important?

Was there a way for Genie to recover?

What can we learn from this?

Conclusions

It is important for children to learn socialisation skills in school and at home. Children are naturally egocentric, thinking of themselves as the center of their world, at birth. It takes development and training to teach children to think of others as well as themselves.

This tendency is not negative, and is inborn in all human beings. However, for children to operate successfully in society, they must learn to interact with others in a healthy, positive, and productive manner. In order to prepare children to be successful in adults, it is crucial that we as adults encourage social interaction, monitor social skills, and teach healthy ways to interact with other children and with adults. Socialisation skills are important not only in school but in all of adult life as well.

Children with poor socialisation skills are less likely to form healthy intimate relationships as adults, more likely to experience peer rejection, and have a higher likelihood of running into trouble either with the juvenile or adult legal system.

Of course the genie case is an extreme example of what happened to children who lack socialisation. It is often useful to look at an extreme to learn from it.

Sadly, I believe, there would have been no way for Genie to recover from what happened in her early childhood.

Her tragedy tackled her primary socialisation. I wouldn't say that she did not experience socialisation, only that the norms and values that she learned from the way her dad treated her during primary socialisation are completely unacceptable in any civilized society.

I believe that what we learn through primary socialisation is permanent, as opposed to what we learn during secondary socialisation. This means that we can re-socialised the norms and values we learn through secondary socialisation but not those that we learn through primary socialisation.

This means that as a society we must pay very close attention to what happens during primary socialisation. Parents must know that the way they treat their children during early childhood will reflect the way the children treat the world for the rest of their lives.

No, if we are exposed to cognitive challenges during primary socialisation then cognitive challenges will not be part of our character and we will have increased difficulty to solve problems or learn language to the point that it becomes impossible.





No, if we want to learn from a unusual case like Genie we must be very careful to do so in a way that it does not affect or further harm her personal development as a human.





Similarly to the first question, our primary socialisation hugely impacts our secondary socialisation because it teaches us the way we respond to challenging situations.

Is it possible to acquire language if we have not been exposed to cognitive challenges during primary socialisation?

Is it ethical to treat a 'once in a life time opportunity' any different from her peers for the sake of research?

What is the impact of faulty primary socialisation on secondary socialisation?