Abstract

CEDERBORG, Ann-Christin; SYLWANDER, Kim Ringmar  and  BLOM, Karen Ann. Research Expanding Current Understandings of Bullying in SwedenInvestigación para ampliar el entendimiento del matoneo en Suecia. Pensam. psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.1, pp.131-146. ISSN 1657-8961.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javerianacali.PPSI14-1.recu.

This paper discusses the on-going research on the phenomenon of bullying in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University. The paper describes the reasons, and how to contribute with an understanding of bullying as a social group phenomenon, and specifically focuses on inductive ethnographic and cyberethnographic approaches toward peer-to-peer interactions in schools, preschools and on the Internet. The understanding of this phenomenon is based on a Swedish interdisciplinary approach which includes children's perspectives. The objective is to explore bullying as a complex social group phenomenon which allows for a focus on the process of bullying, thus creating an opportunity for the enhancement of the understanding of inter- and intra-connected actions and perspectives. This article is intended to contribute to a discussion on a broadening of the conceptualization of the phenomenon of bullying.

Keywords : Bullying; social group phenomenon; schools; preschools; the Internet.

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