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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797311703321

Autore

Cohen Jeffrey W.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Incorporated, , 2014

ISBN

1-62637-314-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Social problems, social constructions

Disciplina

371.7/82

Soggetti

Bullying in schools

Bullying in schools - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.