Confronting school bullying
Subtitle: kids, culture, and the making of a social problem
By: Jeffrey W. Cohen and Robert A. Brooks
Contributors: Brooks, Robert Andrew
Series: Social problems, social constructions
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boulder Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781626371521
Subjects: Bullying in schools; Prevention
Description: "Is bullying an innocent part of growing up ... or a serious problem requiring large-scale policy remedies? What is behind our rapidly changing perceptions of "acceptable" behavior? And when is the remedy worse than the problem? In their in-depth view of school bullying, Jeffrey Cohen and Robert Brooks navigate between empirical evidence and breathless media accounts to make sense of ongoing debates and provide insights into the failure of punitive antibullying policies"--amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bullying and the shifting construction of a social problem; title: Bullying as an individual pathology; title: From personal pathology to collective crisis; title: From collective crisis to collective failure; title: Gender and social control; title: Constructing the gay victim; title: The anti-bullying industry; title: Finding comfort in complexity.