Confronting school bullying : kids, culture, and the making of a social problem / Jeffrey W. Cohen, Robert A. Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Jeffrey W., author.

Brooks, Robert Andrew, author.

Series:

Social problems, social constructions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bullying in schools.

Bullying in schools--Prevention.

Physical Description:

vii, 253 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Bullying and the shifting construction of a social problem

Bullying as an individual pathology

From personal pathology to collective crisis

From collective crisis to collective failure

Gender and social control

Constructing the gay victim

The anti-bullying industry

Finding comfort in complexity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781626371521

1626371520

OCLC:

877563935