Conflict Theory On Bullying

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Bullied to the Breaking Point Bullying has been around for decades and yet it is still a reoccurring problem, and it is only getting worse. The National Center for Educational Statistics, in 2009, said nearly 1 in 3 students between the ages of 12 and 18 reported being bullied in school. Eight years earlier, only 14 percent of that population said they had experienced bullying(Ollove,2014). There are two types of bullying the direct form and indirect form, in the direct form the victim receives physical harm example kicking pushing shoving. In the indirect form the victim receives emotional or mental harm by name-calling, rejection, gossip, threats, or insults(Green,2007). It doesn’t matter which way the victim was bullied it still causes …show more content…

A structural functionalist would say that society is not working together and that the problem is that we all don’t share the same values and that the bullies who obviously are not socialized property should be removed from society and that would solve the problem. A social conflict theorist believes in nine things society is like a pyramid, The elite are at the top of the pyramid and the masses are at the bottom, those on the top of the pyramid hold all the power, Those with the power determine the values for society, the glue that holds society together is force, societal members learn the values of the powerful through the socialization process, society is always in a state of conflict, different people and groups will always be struggling to gain power, those with the economic and political power will shape society to their advantage. A social conflict theorist would say that this topic proves that society is always in a state of conflict because people don’t get along and that different people and groups will always be struggling to gain power because the different people are the masses which are at the …show more content…

The people that care are the ones that are bullied and the familes of the bullied like marx’s social conflict theory says those at the top of the pyramid hold all the power and those with the power determine the values for society. Which means that most people in the top of the pyramid feel that’s its just a “normal part of growing

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