Symbolic Interaction Theory Of Teen Bullying

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What is bullying? Bullying is a person who uses force or mean tactics to show they are superior to another. Bullying happens mostly in high school and middle school where teens try to figure out who they are. When they figure it out or they think that they have, they join those groups, such as the popular group, the smart group, the athletic group, etc. However, there can be a group that thinks they are superior. A bully can have many different reasons why they bully; such as they think they have the right to look down on their inferiors, out of boredom, justice towards other bullies, or for attention. Teen bullying seems to follow the symbolic interaction theory. To show evidence towards my theory I opted for interviews. I interviewed three people and they gave me permission to use their full names and ages. The question I would like to focus on is the …show more content…

Especially in middle school and in high school. According to Examining the Association Between Bullying and Adolescent Concerns About Teen Dating Violence, “preliminary evidence suggests that bullying and dating violence perpetration and victimization often co-occur among adolescents.” (1) It begins while they are younger. As these adolescents become adults they start to understand that their actions were not okay to do to others. This quote mentions that bullying occurs while we are adolescents. There is no thought about our mean actions towards another. Some may think nothing of it while others can think they are doing some justice by bullying a bully for the victims. When we’re adolescents we do not think of the after effects of bullying another. Being an adolescent we do not think of the consequences behind bullying. The point of using this reference was to show that adolescents play a role in why bullies bully in the first place. It is their mind set and a young age that thinks bullying is not something that can change someone’s

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