NAME: K.SAI KUMAR REG.NO: 15BEC0854 RAGGING Ragging is a practice similar to hazing in educational institutions. The word is mainly used in our country and Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Ragging involves existing students bullying new students. It often takes a malignant from where in the newcomers may be subjected to psychological or physical torture. Ragging in India is a damaging form of interaction of the seniors in college or school with the juniors, newcomers or first years. It is similar to but not the same as hazing in the united states, it is not an initiation. It involves insults (simple or suggestive sexual, sarcastic and even physical),running …show more content…
The situation sometimes turns so bad that it compels the ragging victim to commit suicide. A section of insensitive students feel that light ragging should be allowed in educational institutions, while some are totally opposed to the idea and demand stricter punishment for those involved in it. Now we can an example who died through ragging. In the month of last July an engineering student, Rishikeshwari, a B.Arch first year student in Acharya Nagarjuna University committed suicide, after she was unable to face the torture from her seniors. After a detailed inquiry by the police and other officials, a suicide note and Rishikeshwari’s personal diary was found out. In the diary, it is specified that, she was being tortured by the seniors regularly. Rishikeshwari specified that, she was forced to walk in the corridor semi nude and that was captured by the senior girls in the camera and passed on the video to other male senior students in the
Stress Induced Suicide Julie Scelfo’s “Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection” first appeared in The New York Times magazine on July 27, 2015. Scelfo discusses the pressure that family, society, and the individual places on themselves to be perfect. This stress ultimately results in college- age students taking their own lives. “Nationally, the suicide rate among 15- to 24-year-olds has increased modestly but steadily since 2007: from 9.6 deaths per 100,000 to 11.1 in 2013.” Scelfo uses an anecdote, statistics, and expert’s observations to successfully portray her stance on this issue.
This chapter, titled Suicide discusses the deviant activity of suicide. Author John Curra is a professor at Eastern Kentucky University where he teaches courses in social deviance, criminology, sociological analysis amongst more, and has authored several texts. Through the chapter, Curra defines and discusses the various forms of suicide that have been used throughout history, such as obligatory suicide, euthanasia and suicidal bombing. He also explains how these forms have adapted over time and their impact on society as well as how the act of suicide is and has been dealt with across different cultures. Curra clearly shows through this chapter to vast differences in how society reacts to and accepts suicide
Yet, as a profession (and a society) maybe a little shock treatment now and then is good for us, especially if we ourselves work in relatively “safe” schools and communities. Maybe it’s time to remind ourselves that one school’s problem can become every school’s problem if the profession at large is not watchful and careful. No school is immune to the potential of extreme violence, as many of us, without meaning to, have learned. If you’re a long-time, veteran English teacher, you may never have thought you’d see the day when an issue of English Journal would be devoted to school violence. The idea never occurred to me, either. But here we are, and here that issue is. And, what’s more, it’s high time. While none of us needs convincing that the violence problem is serious in a great many places, some of the statistics are sobering.
Hazing is a very dangerous form of bullying. The hazing of a person is usually the rituals and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group. Most forms of hazing could have been a bonding or a trial process that was taken too far. The intention towards hazing is to make it a team building activity or bring some unity within a group. The reality of hazing is not a unified team building action. Fraternities that are in the North-American Interfraternity Conference or NIC and those that are not can be at risk for this term called hazing. The NIC is a group of collegiate men who run their own states fraternities and its members. This organization, although extensive and careful in their profession, may overlook the fact that hazing is an actuality and is a reoccurring theme in fraternities everywhere. The problem with the majority of hazing groups is the idea of hazing is used as a scapegoat for intentional bullying or torture. Although hazing may start out to be positive and promoting unity, it can easily cross the line to become bullying or threatening. If teens can be taught that all forms of hazing are terrible attempts to create unity now, then they will know that hazing can be especially dangerous and counterproductive to promoting unity within a group when it comes time to go to college.
Suicide due to bullying has been given the name of bullycide. One example of bullycide would be Jon Carmichael from Texas who was bullied so harshly that “one day they stripped him naked, tied him up, and stuck him in a trash can, and they taped it with their cell phones and put it all on You Tube” per his mother’s account (Texas Monthly, Hollandsworth). A few days later Jon was found hanging by a rafter from their barn after committing suicide. The perpetrators of this abuse were his fellow classmates and it is reported that “60% of boys who bullied others in middle school had at least one criminal conviction by the age of 24; 40% had three or more convictions” (van der Valk, 41). Bullying behavior not only negatively affects the victims that are singled out and tormented, but from a legal perspective can lead to long term criminal
School shootings and suicides result from continuous bullying. As a result, after time some side effects of...
Suicide is a sad story many people are reluctant to approach. But when somebody nearest to them kills themselves, they feel the compelling guilt of trying to understand the motive behind the death. It is a complex and rather devastating subject. Many who kill themselves can never come back to tell us what happened and why it did. Suicide takes an emotional toll on it's survivors and wreck havoc in the wake of the surrounding victims. What causes suicide is a probing series of many theories, and yet not one definitive answer. The prevention of suicide is also difficult to pinpoint, but only because the intent is unknown. The importance of researching the motives of the suicidal is essential to modern humanity as a whole, because in the era we live in, suicide rates are climbing faster than ever. Understanding the driving force behind suicide is what can help the field of social science to save the conscience mind of many people from self-destruction - and save their lives, and the emotions of their loved ones.
Suicide AwarenessVoices of Education (SAVE) proclaims, “When a person faces his grief, allows his feelings to come, speaks of his grief...it is then that the focus is to move from death and dying and to promote...
The aforementioned are example of student trauma, that can lead to further bad behavior and many harshly repeated reprimands targeted toward so-called problem students, for minor infractions that use mean a visit to the principal’s office or staying after
Dr. Whelan, a sociologist who has taught at many universities, has three books, and several notable achievements, wrote the article, “Helping first year students help themselves”, which is now published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.... ... middle of paper ... ... Works Cited "India Suicide Rates Highest Amongst Young, Educated. " ABC Regional News (n.d.): Points of View Reference Center.
Bullying is a major problem in our society today, especially among teens. Bullying can be found in many forms, such as, direct bullying, which is considered kicking, hitting, making cruel comments, or threats. On the other hand, indirect bullying is spreading rumors, or excluding someone from a group; most of the time indirect bullying is done by females. Another form of bullying is cyber-bullying, which is done on the internet, social networking sites, email, or texting. This has become a very popular form of bullying over the past few years. Also, hazing is considered bullying. The term hazing can vary from singing an embarrassing song to extreme physical torture (Rees 24). Hazing is mostly done in sports and in social groups. The term “bullying” is considered a verbal or physical action that causes physical or psychological harm, is repeated over time, and occurs in a relationship of unequal power (Waters 7). Some people think that bullying does not lead to suicide, and that bullying is just a natural part of life. However, bullying, in many cases, is leading to suicide.
Meaningless insults and unnecessary abuse occurs often while growing up. No matter what age, sex, or race a person maybe it is hard to escape the nastiness of others. Today children are growing up in a society that knows how to haze before they know the meaning of the word. Hazing ranged from little humiliating actions to something more serious such as drunken activities. There are many hazing incidents that go too far but for the most part hazing is silly tasks that does not seriously harm anyone. Some hazing cases include isolation, drills, not letting the pledges shower, and depriving them from sleep for a day or so. Hazing comes in many strengths and variations and in every way it will help build the ...
Most people believe that bullying is using verbal abuse purposefully to control other people ("Bullying info and facts" n.d.). It can occur anywhere; there are many diverse explanations to why people choose to practice this violent behavior. Some of the reasons could be because of the culture, family, or society ("Why do people bully?" n.d.). Usually, children look up to their parents as role models and follow in their footsteps. In certain home environments, parents can be over-demanding by using power, and cannot provide attention or warmth to their children. These kids lose their freedom, and so they think that they can gain it back by dominating over other individuals. In certain cultures, such as where boxing or other violent sports are promoted, viole...
Suicide has become a critical, national problem and the extent of this is mind-boggling. Suicides have been proven to be one of the leading causes of death among college students. According to Webters dictionary “suicide is the act killing oneself on purpose”. It derived from the Latin sui, meaning “self”, and caedere, which means “to kill”. But this is just a definition, because an actual suicide holds different meanings to people such as tragic, shocking, a relief, a cry for help, a shame, heroic, the right choice, punishment, revenge, protest, anger, a mistake, desperate, hurtful and many more. But why do people, like college students who have their entire future ahead of them, simply give up hope and turn their heads away from life and commit suicide. There are several causes of suicide, recent incidents of suicide on college campuses, warning signs from a suicidal. I blame the Constitution and the United States law for not taking any hard initiative on the subject of suicide. I also impose the choice of the media, which is reflecting and portraying suicide towards a wrong direction. However most important questions remain: can the growing epidemic of suicide be solved, what are communities doing about it and what can they do to help?
This happens in those cases where the management is determined to be reluctant to prevent bullying or does nothing to protect the juniors. The emotional torture that the victim gets after a prolonged torture is what makes them think of killing themselves. Bullying also has effects on the institution where it’s reputation is greatly destroyed. People will negatively talk about the school and chances are higher, that most parents will avoid taking their children to such schools. The overall performance for the school is found to decrease as individual victims of bullying ends up performing poorly. In other cases, the oppressed students might gang up to organize strikes which greatly destroys the school infrastructure and disrupts the normal