Bullying, genealogy of the concept

TY - ENCYC

T1 - Bullying, genealogy of the concept

AU - Søndergaard, Dorte Marie

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Bullying is a serious problem among children in schools and institutions. However, it is only relatively recently that bullying has emerged as a field of research, although the phenomenon itself has likely existed in various forms among children for as long as mankind has walked the earth. The genealogy of bullying as a concept has taken the understanding of bullying in different directions with a varying emphasis on either the roles played by individuals (victims and perpetrators) or on social and relational aspects. This short text takes us through the understandings of bullying from Peter-Paul Heinemann's introduction of the term ‘mobbing’ almost 50 years ago, linking it to everyday, human examples of harassment and social exclusion among children, through Dan Olweus' more individualistic conceptualizations starting in the 1970'ies with his book 'Aggression in Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys' - and up till more contemporary studies focusing the social dynamics in groups as the basis for enactment of bullying practices bringing in the Danish research from the project eXbus: exploring bullying in school and their book School Bullying: New Theories in Context from 2014.

AB - Bullying is a serious problem among children in schools and institutions. However, it is only relatively recently that bullying has emerged as a field of research, although the phenomenon itself has likely existed in various forms among children for as long as mankind has walked the earth. The genealogy of bullying as a concept has taken the understanding of bullying in different directions with a varying emphasis on either the roles played by individuals (victims and perpetrators) or on social and relational aspects. This short text takes us through the understandings of bullying from Peter-Paul Heinemann's introduction of the term ‘mobbing’ almost 50 years ago, linking it to everyday, human examples of harassment and social exclusion among children, through Dan Olweus' more individualistic conceptualizations starting in the 1970'ies with his book 'Aggression in Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys' - and up till more contemporary studies focusing the social dynamics in groups as the basis for enactment of bullying practices bringing in the Danish research from the project eXbus: exploring bullying in school and their book School Bullying: New Theories in Context from 2014.

KW - Bullying

KW - Bullying and children

KW - Bullying in school

KW - Definition of bullying

KW - Bullying and genealogy

KW - Social concept of bullying

KW - Mobning

KW - Børnekultur

KW - Grundskole

KW - Bullying a social phenomenon

KW - Bulllying in school

KW - Genealogy of the word bullying

KW - Bullying and the individual

KW - eXbus

M3 - Encyclopedia entry

SN - 978-1-4739-4292-9

VL - 1

SP - 166

EP - 167

BT - The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies

A2 - Cook, Daniel Thomas

PB - SAGE Publications

CY - Thousand Oaks, California

ER -