Bullying from a Psychological Perspective: A Response to Magrass and Derber / Ann H. Farrell and Tracy Vaillancourt. Taxonomy of Harm: A Response to Collins / Robert Faris and John Faris -- Role of Status in Bullying: On Murray Milner's Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids / Amy L. Best -- Addressing Queer Youth and Bullying: Sociologically Informed Approaches / Melissa J. Smith and Elizabethe Payne -- Bullying as a Social Problem: Interactional Homophobia and Institutional Heteronormativity in Schools / C. J. Pascoe -- Mean Girls and Tough Guys: Gender, Sexuality, and the Individualization of Anti-Bullying Efforts / Sarah A. Miller -- Status Motivation, Network Stability, and Instrumental Cruelty / Robert Faris and Liann Tucker -- Conflict with Friends and Social Status Mobility in Middle School / Laura Callejas -- Social Differentness and Bullying: A Discussion of Race, Class, and Income / Todd Migliaccio -- Cultures of Peer Harassment or Support in Schools: An Interactionist Account of Student Culture / Hana Shepherd -- Anti-Bullying Myth: Bullying and Aggression in an Inhabited Institution / Brent Harger -- Prevention and Intervention Programs for Bullying Perpetration and Victimization / Denise Wilson Kirsten L. Witherup and Allison Ann Payne -- Understanding Culture to Combat Bullying: A Mixed-Methods Approach / Alicia Raia-Hawrylak -- Full of Bull: Militarized Capitalism, Education, and Psychologists / Yale R. Magrass and Charles Derber -- Bullying from a Psychological Perspective: A Response to Magrass and Derber / Ann H. Farrell and Tracy Vaillancourt.
Summary:
"This book takes form in this edited volume on aggressive adolescent behavior that employs sociological theories and empirical research to better understand the social aspects of bullying. Leading sociologists and other social scientists consider ways in which a sociological understanding of bullying can advance research and inform anti-bullying school policies"-- Provided by publisher. An important new collection on the nature and consequences of bullying. School shootings and suicides by young victims of bullying have spurred a proliferation of anti-bullying programs, yet most of the research done on school bullying has been from psychologists. The Sociology of Bullying will be the first volume to present the leading ideas in sociology about bullying among adolescents that moves beyond an individualistic approach and instead offers ideas about how to address bullying as a byproduct of social systems, biases, and status hierarchies. Sociologists investigate the impact of social forces on bullying among adolescents, such as inequality, heteronormativity, militarized capitalism, racism, cancel culture, power, and competition. Contributors explore a wide range of key topics, such as how homophobia and gender normativity encourage bullying; how anti-bullying curricula can ultimately lead to more bullying; and how adolescents use bullying against their friends to improve their own social standing. By advancing sociological perspectives on bullying, this important volume aims to shift the national conversation from one that focuses on villainizing bullies to one that encourages an inward look at the aspects of our culture that foster bullying behavior among children. -- Provided by publisher.
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