Bullying
Bullying has existed as long as humans have and it’s just a fact of life that we have to live with. there is no getting rid of bullying because there is no way to completely stop it. Therefore, we need to at least try and minimize the problem as much as we can. When the term bully is spoken we often think of little kids getting their lunch money taken away from them by a much bigger peer or getting teased because of an abnormality or social statues. But bullying goes much more into depth than that. To put in a bigger perspective I am going to give an example of a type of bullying that most people over look. Countries like U.S bully other countries because of the simple fact that it has more power than the others so they can do what they want. Youth health issues: BullyingWhat is bullying ?
‘Bullying among children can be considered as a form of abuse’ (Dawkins, 1995). It has beenput forward that bullying is a division of aggressive behaviour and has been further characterized as repetitive and ‘an inability on behalf of the victim to defend him or herself’(Farrington ,1993, cited it Sapouna, 2008). We learn from Sapouna (2008) that bullying cantake the form of ‘verbal (name calling), physical (hitting, kicking) or relational (deliberateexclusion from a group, spreading of malicious rumours).’ In defining bullying Pikes (1989, citedin Hoover, Oliver & Hazler,1992) introduces the idea of ‘mobbing’ . This refers to ‘situationswhere victims are chronically abused by several peers’ (Pikes,1989, cited in Hoover et al.,1992).Therefore, bullying and mobbing can be thought of a constraint of aggression and violence(Olweus, 1978, cited in Hoover et al.,1992). After extensive research in Scandinavia, Olweus(1993, cited in Kumpulainen et al.,1998) proposed that bullying can be carried out by one or more adolescents and usually occurs on repeated occasions, and to some extent, it occurs inall schools.Recently bullying amongst young people has gain notoriety in the
‘Bullying among children can be considered as a form of abuse’ (Dawkins, 1995). It has beenput forward that bullying is a division of aggressive behaviour and has been further characterized as repetitive and ‘an inability on behalf of the victim to defend him or herself’(Farrington ,1993, cited it Sapouna, 2008). We learn from Sapouna (2008) that bullying cantake the form of ‘verbal (name calling), physical (hitting, kicking) or relational (deliberateexclusion from a group, spreading of malicious rumours).’ In defining bullying Pikes (1989, citedin Hoover, Oliver & Hazler,1992) introduces the idea of ‘mobbing’ . This refers to ‘situationswhere victims are chronically abused by several peers’ (Pikes,1989, cited in Hoover et al.,1992).Therefore, bullying and mobbing can be thought of a constraint of aggression and violence(Olweus, 1978, cited in Hoover et al.,1992). After extensive research in Scandinavia, Olweus(1993, cited in Kumpulainen et al.,1998) proposed that bullying can be carried out by one or more adolescents and usually occurs on repeated occasions, and to some extent, it occurs inall schools.Recently bullying amongst young people has gain notoriety in the