Social Conflict Theory

In a social conflict perspective to bully, is a macro view, which is a view of society a whole and how a society is different in gender, religion, and race, and how it raises to conflicts in bullying and how people bullies others, and how certain types of people more vulnerable to being bullied then others, by their race and class. Conflict theorist would take a look into how society deals with bullying, in terms of conflict and tension from comparing different groups, (Schaefer and Haaland, p. 20) for instance, an individual of one race being treated differently from another race, and what circumstances do these different groups get treated differently. Additionally, it explains and demonstrates the matter and parts played in society and makes
Structural functionalist perspective not only focuses on the bullies and the victims, but also how it’s constructs with the laws, school system, and demonstrate moral values in a society that relate to bullying. “Peers are another powerful source of social roles, they have the potential to play a critical role in the reinforcement or punishment of bullying and victim behaviour at school, because peers share similar characteristics and therefore have a heightened saliences as role models among children (As cited Bandura, 1997; Patterson, 1986) (Wilson, C; Parry, L; Nettelbeck, T; Bell, J, 2003) additionally, even though children are aware and have made concerns to teachers and parents, adults usually are reluctant and unwilling to be involved or discipline directly when a situation of bullying occurs and bullies potentially wont understand their wrong doings because of the absence of punishment and continue to bully others. (As cited Craig & Pepler, 1997) (Wilson, C; et al.) How would a society function differently without bullying? According to Thornburg’s article, "Distressed Bullies, Social Positioning and Odd Victims: Young People’s Explanations of Bullying" social sigma is the exact same explanation as the “odd victim”. This is because if an individual is
If more schools put in the effort and took charge of bullying and made it a serious offense in the schools, or even police getting involved, it would save so many children and youths