Methodological Issues for the Analysis of Bullying in Educational Environments
The report provides the setting for a research on bullying in educational establishments, on a population of students aged between 6 and 18 years into three levels of education: primary (6–10), middle (11–13) and secondary schools (14–18). The analysis pa
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Abstract The report provides the setting for a research on bullying in educational establishments, on a population of students aged between 6 and 18 years into three levels of education: primary (6–10), middle (11–13) and secondary schools (14–18). The analysis pays attention more than reparative therapeutic aspect of the phenomenon, to the dynamical aspects inherent the structure of the organization in which this phenomenon arise, to school climate and to the dynamics of the youth groups within and outside of school.
Keywords Bullying Educational organization dynamics Class group
School climate
Group
1 Foreword To conduct research on bullying involves primarily the need to ask yourself some basic questions to help clarify some of the problems concerned with the matter. Firstly, attention should be paid to the term bullying and more particularly on what is meant by bullying in the Italian socio-cultural context, as well as on an interpersonal and group dynamic context, and on processes of socialization of traditional and/or anticipatory-progressive types that are observed. Additional questions are focused on types of values and on the regulatory processes of social life. The scope and complexity of the issues arising from such questions is really wide, including aspects which are purely anthropological and cultural (traditional culture), evaluation of relational and socio-organizational processes, analysis of environmental and spatial contexts, references and identity of persistence behaviors and attitudes customarily encoded. Finally, what influences social identity, culture
G. Di Francesco (&) Chieti-Pescara, Dipartimento di Lettere, Arti e Scienze Sociali, Università “G. d’Annunzio”, Via dei Vestini 31, 66100 Chieti, Italy e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 A. Maturo et al. (eds.), Recent Trends in Social Systems: Quantitative Theories and Quantitative Models, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 66, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40585-8_13
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and organizational choices in bullying as an inevitable phenomenon in the dynamics of the social group. In terms of definition, while keeping in mind the significance of some of its Italian popular culture etymology (such as those of guappo, guapparia, and also that of the godfather or sacramental godfather figure), to specify the contents of the phenomena of “bullying”, reference is made to the main acts and behaviors that are characterized as bullying, harassment, often repeatedly perpetrated by a boy, or more frequently by a group of boys, against another classmate, school or neighborhood, more or less the same age. “Bullying” (from the English bullying “bully”, domineer, intimidate) can generally be defined as an action that aims deliberately to do harm, to damage another individual. The bully, as a single or a group, wants to overwhelm a person to feel stronger, more important, and to better be relied upon (Belotti and Castellan 2006; Olweus 2007).
2 The Research Design The focus of r
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