Jeffery W. Cohen and Robert A. Brooks: Confronting School Bullying: Kids, Culture, and the Making of a Social Problem

Excerpt

In Confronting School Bullying: Kids, Culture, and the Making of a Social Problem, authors Jeffery W. Cohen and Robert A. Brooks provide discussion, research, theories, and examples of real life situations surrounding the issue of school bullying. The authors highlight school bullying as a worldwide epidemic, perceived by most as a serious social problem. The book explains how our culture and the media often inadvertently perpetuate the issue of school bullying through the use of framing and through reinforcing societal norms. A number of prevention strategies are discussed that have been designed and implemented in hopes of effectively dealing with this growing epidemic, but as the authors point out throughout the book, these prevention mechanisms fail to take into account the multiple levels of influence on bullying. By dealing with this perceived social problem on all levels, and taking into account both mico and marco-levels when implementing prevention mechanisms, the authors reveal how society can stop school bullying from expanding. …