Here is the second guest post from guest post U for CSI Without Dead Bodies.
Bullying
is any form of aggressive behavior that seeks to force or coerce
others, usually by force. Typically bullying presents itself in the
context of an imbalance of power and as a habitual behavior by the
aggressor. Bullies, especially young ones, may target the religion,
sexuality, ability, or race of the recipient of their bullying
aggression. There are many types and formats of bullying, and just as
many ways to combat bullying from persisting or arising in the first
place.
Types of Bullying
Social scientists have identified three
main forms of bullying - emotional bullying, verbal bullying, and
physical bullying. Emotional and verbal bullying usually come saddled
with attempts at coercion and intimidation. Coercion almost explains
intimidation in that coercion is defined as forcing another party to
behave in an involuntary way via use of bellicose threats and
intimidation. Intimidation is defined as an aggressor party presenting
injury or harm to another person for some type of benefit, usually
social or financial.
Emotional bullying, also known as psychological abuse, may involve
coercion and intimidation as well as subjecting another party to any
event or treatment that will result in the other party experiencing
psychology trauma, such as anxiety or depression. Emotionally bullying
is predictably associated with an exploitation of a power imbalance. For
this reason, emotional bullying and psychological abuse is prevalent on
the schoolyard, the home, and in the workplace.
One form of emotional bullying is verbal aggression. Verbal
aggression is colloquially defined as something that intentionally
upsets, annoys, or disturbs another person. There are other forms of
emotional bullying like dominant and jealous behaviors but those forms
of emotionally bullying are unimportant for this conversation. At any
rate, the US Department of Justice recently concluded that emotionally
abusive characteristics are those which cause fear by intimidation or
threaten the physical harm of one's family members, classmates, or
fellow employers. Another interesting finding coming out of Health
Canada found that emotional abuse is motivated by power and facilitated
within social arenas in which power was imbalanced and exploited by the
aggressor.
Conventional Yet Harmful
Perhaps the most well-known form
of bullying is physical bullying. Physical bullying is defined as an
aggressor party deliberately seeking to instill bodily harm or injury
onto another party. Popular forms of physical abuse or physical bullying
are: striking, kicking, kneeing, drowning, cutting, slapping, and
burning. Partly because physical bullying is so openly and inclusively
defined, physical bullying is also prevalent in the home, schools, and
workplaces all around the United States. Physical abuse is even popular
on college campuses in the form of sorority hazing. In the home,
physical abuse presents itself as child abuse, sometimes negligence, or
domestic violence.
Standup and Fight!
There has been an increasingly large
swell of celebrities and activities seeking to combat bullying.
Considering some of the dire outcomes of bullying, like suicide,
bullying in the classroom is no laughing matter. Canada actually
conceived the National Bullying Prevention Week in 2000. In the United
States, the It Gets Better campaign was created in 2010 to tell young,
gay teens that bullying doesn't usually persist into later life and that
they are apt to feel better in the future. Lady Gaga, in fact, started
the Born This Way campaign soon after the unveiling of the It Gets
Better campaign, which both directly combat homosexual bullying and
indirectly fight teen suicides.
Needs to Stop
After understanding more about the three
main types of bullying and the severity of its outcomes, bullying is
clearly a problem endemic to many social institutions and peoples that
needs to sputter to a stop soon.
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Guest Post U
The University of Great Content
