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Evaluate competing ideas on the effects of deprivation on a child during their early years. The socialisation process during a child's early years is vitally important. During the first two years of his life an infant will gradually become a self-aware being who passively absorbs the influences in which he comes into contact with. So, with the socialisation process responsible for making us who we are and our parents being the main agents of primary socialisation during early infancy, what would happen if a child were to be deprived of this most important stage of socialisation and had little or no contact with Human Beings? Two well documented cases of child deprivation are Genie and the 'wild boy of Aveyron'. Genie provides us with a fairly recent case of deprivation. She was discovered in November, 1970 and had been locked alone in a room for over 10 years. During the day Genie...

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