The Social Hierarchy Of School Labels

When they are in a group of girls, no single girl can be blamed for the incident. In this case, girls will get others to gang up on someone. The victim fears losing, or does lose many friends, making this the ultimate form of relational aggression. This often happens in the so-called "popular clique." These girls will rise up to take down one of the own members. The worst part about cliques taking down their own members, is that part of the time, the girls are doing it for fun. The girls get bored, and they decide to bully the girl who they don't like that much. The girls bullied this way don't know why they are being bullied, so they blame themselves and often get depressed. Girls gang up on each other way too often, leaving many girls upset with themselves and

Hierarchy, a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. In the United States, hierarchy is not uncommon. In Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ifemelu an African immigrant from Nigeria experiences the reality of what the “American Dream” truly is like for an immigrant. Adichie uses her character's life as to show how race affects her in America. Ifemelu moved to the United States with the illustration that she would easily be able to get a job, go to school, find love and be able to send money home in Nigeria. Instead, she was faced with many obstacles like racism. Racism is one of the major social issues of the modern world. It affects millions of people worldwide and is one of the deepest social problems in the United States.

Society tends to have a set definition of what “normal” means as well as how people should behave. The view a population has on normality is an outcome of culture, individuals, and the environment that surrounds it. A person is raised to regard behavior in a certain way, which tends to result in them having a fixed opinion of what is acceptable. An issue of this phenomenon arises when people cannot endure others having a different standpoint on what is customary. It causes individuals to argue and leads to the inferior giving in, submitting to those whose views are much more socially accepted. When the majority pressures their opinions on

Bullying has been going on for heavens know how long and unfortunately still goes on today. Another type of bullying is verbal which is making fun of someone by using words to bring that person down. It is calling someone names to make them feel inferior and sadly goes on a lot in the school environment.

When it comes to bulling males and females have different approaches. So what characteristics do bullies really share? First of all, male bullies tend to confront a victim more direct, not only do they insult their victim but they may also physically their victim. Females tend to bully their victims indirectly. For example it is common for female bullies to spread rumors about their victim or force others to shun the victim. Also while male bullies tend to bully people of both genders female bullies tend to attack that of the same gender, female. All in all both male and female bullies assert power over the victim by hostility.

When dealing with sexual orientation and gender bullying can take many different forms. It can be gender specific, male against female harassment or vice versa, they ridicule others physical appearance for what they may have or lack thereof. Girls can be very cruel when pertaining to these things; a girl could be developing late or even earlier. Because of this reason she may not be along the same lines as the other girls, therefore will be singled out for it.

“In this world, friendship is a weapon, and the sting of a shout pales in comparison to a day of someone’s silence. There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away” (Simmons 3). This quote from Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons shows that girls don’t show aggression in the same way guys do. Girls use the power of their relationships to bully others. Rachel Simmons was once bullied herself. She never spoke out about it or tried to figure out why it was happening. Now having grown up, she sets out to talk and listen to females of all ages to figure out just how many of them have been bullied or have been the one to do the bullying. She interviews girls from different schools asking about their experience with other girl bullies. Two of these girls, Vanessa and Natalie, both said they

A majority of bullying takes place during our elementary or in high school.. Peer pressure is reported to be a frequent reason as to why students feel the need to bully their peers. Many people have experienced bullying in some way throughout their lifetime. Some people were victims of bullying, while others were the ones doing the bullying, or in some cases, they were both. It isn’t rare to hear that

Gerran, I also thought Félicité could be described as a “simple heart,” due to her selfless personality and her ability to appreciate life for what hers is. Félicité, an underclass maid was one of the only characters who showed genuine love and those of an upper class proved to show opposite characteristics: anger, animosity, and toxicity. I found it interesting to have the opportunity to compare these two social hierarchies; I would of thought the upper class hierarchy would have been more happy than those such as Félicité, but this shows again money and materialistic things are not the key to happiness. I also thought Félicité was naive for she was being taken advantage of by her own family and while those such as Madame Aubain and her sisters

I will start by describing the biological dimensions of bullying victims, perpetrators, and bully-victims. Carpanzo et al. (2011) asserts that there are gender differences in bullying. While both biological genders participate equally in relational and physical aggression according to the study, physical aggression is more common in boys but relational aggression is equal between the sexes. Bullying was more stable across a two-year period and weighed more heavily on individual personality characteristics with the males in the study and girls were more influenced into participating in bullying behavior by social norms. A study by Fu et al. (2012) examined bullying victimization in twelfth graders between 1989 and 2009. The study aimed to find repetitive risk factors concerning socioeconomic status and behavioral characteristics. The result of the study

Also people judge them without knowing what is going on. Everything that bullies do is a cause of their mental issues. Authors, Dorothy Espelage and Melissa K. Holt mention in their articles “Journal of Emotional Abuse” how boys are more often bullied than girls.Also it talks how older students take part in bullying more often than the youger ones because they have more available resources to do that.. Younger kids do not know how to use facebook and other media that is available to them.In adition the studies from their articles prove that people that are bullies tend to hang out with other people that are bullies, and that is how bullies are geting stronger and abuse more and more innocent students,kids and even elders.

Many researches on bullying have found a strong connection between bullying behavior and the gender differences (Hathorn & Harris, 2006).Furthermore it has been evaluated to find out the difference between diverse types of violence in bullying between girls and boys in various grades. For example, several researches have debated that physical bullying is more prevalent in

Bullying can be hard to define, because research has shown that it comes in many forms which makes it difficult to find one set of characteristics that will describe a bully. Conclusively, studies have defined bullying as a set of repeated aggressive behavior that is intended to harm someone, which usually involves an imbalance of power between the victim and the perpetrator (Morgan, 2012, p. 174). Studies have shown that there are two distinct types of bullying, which is a direct form of verbal and physical aggression, and indirect, which often results in name calling, rumors and exclusion (Aluedse, 2006, p. 38). This form of peer victimization can have devastating effects on a child 's academic work and their physical and psychological well being (Limber, 2003, p. 23). In terms of gender, boys are more likely to be involved in physical bullying (direct) as for girls are more likely to be involved in indirect bullying (Wang et al, 2009, p. 371). Previous research indicates, that parents and friends are two important factors of social interaction associated with bullying and victimization among adolescences. Bullying is quite common among middle school children, because it is during this time that children go through puberty and hormonal changes. During this time students are looking to be accepted and fit into a specific group; however, when there is a lack of acceptance and esteem due to victimization, this can cause children to isolate themselves from those around them

The most common type of bullying among females is verbal bullying (“Verbal Bullying” 1). This type of psychological bullying uses derogatory terms to demean, or lower, the victim in the eyes of others to show that the bully has power over them (“Verbal Bullying” 1). This causes the person to have low self-esteem and develop depression in that victim (“Verbal Bullying” 1). Verbal bullying is the most psychologically damaging and lasts well into adulthood (Aluede et al. 6). “[Words] have a power all their own, and the realities of verbal bullying can have very physical consequences, even if the aggressor never lays a finger on the victim” (“Verbal Bullying” 1) In more severe cases of verbal bullying, or any bullying for that matter, can lead to drugs because the victim wants to escape his or her tortured life, in more extreme cases if the person’s depression worsens it could lead to suicide (“Verbal Bullying” 1).

What appears to be bullying is not always bullying. There is this misconception that when someone disagrees with another person or is hurtful towards that person, bullying always seems to be what they say is going on. Although statistics shows that one in four kids are bullied, all aggressive actions are not bullying. If a person has self-esteem and self confidence in themselves and not let others tear you down the imbalance of power is balanced. Bullies have more power over their victims and always want to be on top. They enjoy displaying the power they have over their victim.