2023
DOI: 10.1111/soc4.13071
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A sociology of bullying: Placing youth aggression in social context

Abstract: In this paper we review the sociological literature on peer aggression among adolescents and demonstrate how it can form the basis of a new subfield in sociology on the subject of bullying. Although sociologists have mostly avoided the term bullying in classic works on adolescent aggression, these studies suggest that institutional social control, status hierarchies and social inequalities provide important social context for youth aggression. While historically they have not been in dialog with each other, wh… Show more

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“…Giving severe punishment to the perpetrators for their actions will lead to protests and refusals, so the boarding school will take action to expel the perpetrators if they frequently engage in bullying, especially physical bullying. The study's findings support Ulum, Donoghue and Darrow assertion that bullying has sociological and psychological effects on students (Darrow, 2021;Donoghue & Pascoe, 2023;Ulum, 2021).…”
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confidence: 82%
“…Giving severe punishment to the perpetrators for their actions will lead to protests and refusals, so the boarding school will take action to expel the perpetrators if they frequently engage in bullying, especially physical bullying. The study's findings support Ulum, Donoghue and Darrow assertion that bullying has sociological and psychological effects on students (Darrow, 2021;Donoghue & Pascoe, 2023;Ulum, 2021).…”
supporting
confidence: 82%
“…This possibility aligns with growing evidence on the "dark side" of social capital (Villalonga-Olives & Kawachi, 2017), which suggests that dense friendship networks can have strikingly adverse effects on individuals' behaviors. With respect to adolescents and schools, this is perhaps most evident in the literature on bullying (Donoghue, 2022), underlining the potential for close friendships to be a major source of both support and victimization (Banny et al, 2011). For instance, adolescents can often effectively bully each other to climb the status hierarchy of their school (Faris, 2012), and they are most likely to target closely tied friends in doing so (Faris et al, 2020).…”
Section: School Friendship Network Closure and Positive School Climatementioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to Olweus 6 ,p. 770), "being bullied by peers represents a serious violation of the fundamental rights of the child or youth exposed" and management of this phenomenon is a priority for the provision of appropriate education. However, Olweus's definition of bullying is increasingly critiqued and contested 2,7,8 and the evidence base for interventions to manage incidences of bullying within schools is mixed 3,9,10 .…”
Section: : a Whole Education Approach To School-based Bullying Preven...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This approach situates the school within the wider social context in which it exists, inclusive of the wider education community (and within society more broadly) and considers the technologies that support relationships in this broader conceptualisation. This approach takes a broader perspective regarding bullying and is heavily influenced by deeper understanding of the school context and social-ecological theory 12 than has been considered previously 7 . This perspective moves away from viewing bullying as an individual behavioural choice of students whose role remains consistent across their school careers 8 .…”
Section: A Whole Education Approach To Inclusionmentioning
confidence: 99%