The Inportance of Social Experience

The Importance of Social Experience
Throughout history there have been many theories on how important social experience is to human development, but what if a child were to have no social experience? Would the child still develop and become a normal functioning adult? Although scientists have never actually experimented with isolating humans, there have been cases of abuse in which children were socially isolated for long periods of time(Macionis J. & Gerber L. 2002, p.111-112).
With these cases to study and with social scientists theories on development we have begun to understa…