Act of Bullying
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An Act of Bullying is an act of aggression by a bully(aggressor) to a bullied person (aggressed) that involves intimidation.
- Context:
- It can (often) include Verbal Aggression.
- It can range from Verbal Bullying (with verbal aggression) to Physical Bullying (with physical aggression).
- It can range from Emotional Bullying to ...
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- an Act of Kindness.
- an Assault.
- an Act of Theft.
- See: Dominance, Coercion, Power (Social and Political), Harassment, Threat, Assault, Rationalization (Making Excuses), Mobbing, Victimization.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bullying Retrieved:2017-11-4.
- Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power, which distinguishes bullying from conflict. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Rationalizations of such behavior sometimes include differences of social class, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, appearance, behavior, body language, personality, reputation, lineage, strength, size, or ability. If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has no legal definition of bullying, while some states in the United States have laws against it. Bullying is divided into four basic types of abuse – emotional (sometimes called relational), verbal, physical, and cyber. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion, such as intimidation. Bullying ranges from one-on-one, individual bullying through to group bullying called mobbing, in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his or her bullying activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse. Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rankism. A bullying culture can develop in any context in which humans interact with each other. This includes school, family, the workplace, home, and neighborhoods. In a 2012 study of male adolescent American football players, "the strongest predictor [of bullying] was the perception of whether the most influential male in a player's life would approve of the bullying behavior".
2017b
- David Graeber. (2017). “I didn't understand how widespread rape was. Then the penny dropped.” In: The Guardian, 2017-11-05
- QUOTE: … It’s of course this very disbelief that allows such things to happen. We are loth to accept people we might know might practice pure, naked aggression. This is how bullies get away with what they do. I’ve written about this. Bullying is not just a relation between bully and victim. It’s really a three-way relation, between bully, victim and everyone who refuses to do anything about the aggression; all those people who say “boys will be boys” or pretend there’s some equivalence between aggressor and aggressed. Who see a conflict and say “it doesn’t matter who started it” even in cases where, in reality, nothing could possibly matter more. …