Description
This edited book provides a structured introduction to the key sociological theorists and theories relevant to understanding the phenomenon of school bullying. Each chapter includes an introduction to the theorist and key concepts, an overview of previous research, an analysis of one or more empirical examples using the concepts, and a discussion of implications and potential for future research. The book will be a much-needed resource for researchers, students and practitioners interested in school bullying from a sociological perspective.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Anomie: School Bullying Prevention and Sustainable Futures from a Durkheimian Perspective.- Chapter 3: Figurations: An Eliasian Approach to Studying School Bullying.- Chapter 4: Joint Action: A Blumerian Understanding of School Bullying.- Chapter 5: Stigma: A Goffmanian Approach to School Bullying.- Chapter 6: Discourse, Subjectivity and Power: A Foucauldian Take on School Bullying.- Chapter 7: Capital: Bourdieu and School Bullying.- Chapter 8: Structuration Theory: Giddens’ Contribution to Understanding School Bullying.- Chapter 9: Emotional Work: Hochschild’s Sociology of Emotions and School Bullying.- Chapter 10: Cisheteronormativity and Performativity: The Usefulness of Judith Butler’s Concepts for Troubling the Bullying Phenomenon.- Chapter 11: Affect, Emotions and Orientations: School Bullying Through Sara Ahmed’s Concepts.- Chapter 12: Summary.
