Social Issues Research Project

Introduction to Information Technology in Business

Course Code - BTT101

Date: June 1st 2020

Submitted to: Mr.Vergura

Submitted from: Fatemeh Eslami

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TABLE OF CONTENT

I. FACTUAL RESEARCH ON BULLYING 3

a) Introduction 3
b) What is bullying? How can anyone differentiate between bullying and hazing, or
meanness? 4
c) What are the different types of bullying? 5
d) What are the different types of hazing? 5
e) How is bullying so common? How is hazing common? 5
II. REFLECTION ON BULLYING INCLUDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT
ADDRESSING IT 8
a) Reflection on Bullying 8
b) Consequences of not addressing the issue- Bullying 9
c) Possible Outcomes 10
Bibliography 11

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 I. FACTUAL RESEARCH ON BULLYING

a) Introduction

· The concept of bullying is physical or verbal violence which is continued over

a period of time and includes a power imbalance as opposed to meanness.

● Although hazing often involves violence over a period of time, bullying removes

the victim from a party when hazing is part of the victim's introduction into a party.

● Victims of bullying were twenty-eight per cent of young people in grades six to

12.

● Many teachers overlook how much bullying arises at their schools.

● Parents are conscious that just about half the time their child gets bullied.

● Despite the common opinion, bullies have also been shown to have a very high

self-esteem and to be social climbers, who have never been bullied themselves.

● Abusive observers continue to respond to social pressure that they feel is to

encourage abusive behavior and fear of being the target.

● Bullying may have extremely negative results, both for the bully and for the

target.

● There are a variety of strategies that can be used by bullying targets and

observers, as well as by parents, school and staff to prevent bullying at school or

in the workplace.

Research Objectives:

● To understand what bullying is and how can anyone differentiate between bullying and

hazing, or meanness.

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 ● To know what are the different types of bullying.

● To discover what are the different types of hazing.

● To discuss why bullying is so common and how it is hazing common?

b) What is bullying? How can anyone differentiate between bullying

and hazing, or meanness?

Although state law has no clarity in the description of bullying, the U.S. definition was

adopted. Education department and other healthcare professionals involve unnecessary

physical or verbal abuse aimed at a single individual, occurring over a period of time,

causing a power imbalance, and attempting to remove the victim from a party. It is also

defined by the bully constantly using higher social rank to maintain control over the

victim and harm the victim. When stalking, name calling, talking, gossip spreading,

threatening or other forms of violence travel from being done in person or via telephone

to the use of emails, chat rooms, forums or other social media on the Internet, it is

referred to as cyber bullying or online bullying. Hazing, by fact, is part of the victim's

initiation into a group, and meanness does not represent a power imbalance. Besides

that, meanness includes negative behaviors among peers, socially and otherwise.

People usually think of bullying at school as taking place between kids. It may also

occur at work, however, which can involve offensive behavior such as physical assault,

damaging the job or employment relationship of the victim, or misuse of authority. Adult

bullies engaged in these activities are 60 percent of the time men. While men who bully

tend to victimize both sexes equally, women bully about 80 percent of the time target

other women.

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c) What are the different types of bullying?

At least five ways of bullying exist.

● Physical bullying may involve hitting, kicking, pinching, pushing or attacking

others elsewhere.

● Verbal bullying refers to using language to hurt people with name-calling,

mocking, making sexual or racist comments, harsh bullying, taunting, imitating, or

verbal attacks.

● Relational bullying is about removing others from a social group , usually by

physical attacks, spreading gossip and other types of bullying.

● Reactive bullying entails the bully coping by picking on others to become a

potential victim.

● Bullying can also include abuse on a person's body, whether the victim has taken

or destroyed his or her personal property.

d) What are the different types of hazing?

● Cursing or screaming at victims

● Force people to eat disgusting things

● Beating, kicking, marking, choking or tying up victims

● Requiring victims to perform sexual acts

● Force alcohol drinking

e) How is bullying so common? How is hazing common?

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Some data on bullying show that 28 percent of grade six through 12 students have a

history of being the victim of bullying, while 30% of high school students admit that they

have harassed other peers. About 10 percent -14 percent of children have become

bullying victims for more than six months. Most cyber bullying victims have also been

the targets of bullying at school.

Boys are more likely to engage in bullying than girls, especially at high school level and

beyond, and are more likely to participate in physical or verbal bullying, physically or

verbally, while girls are more likely to participate in emotional bullying.

Studies suggest that teachers sometimes underestimate how often abuse is taking

place in their classroom, since they see just about 4 percent of the cases that occur.

Additionally, bullying victims report it to school authorities just one-third of the time,

usually when the abuse happens regularly or causes harm. Parents seem to be

conscious of just about half the time that their child is being bullied.

More than 40 percent of U.S. employees experienced workplace abuse. It is believed

that more than 90 percent of working women feel they have been humiliated at some

stage in their careers by another woman. However, a woman can view regular control

by another woman as oppressive because of the belief women should be more caring.

At one time almost half of high school students and more than half of college students

who were part of a band, squad, brotherhood, drama club, or other group were

harassed.

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Bullying is the outcome of the bully's intention to take charge over someone else and

hold them in charge. The bullying violence interferes with the empathy needed to refrain

from bullying others. There are two distinct kinds of aggression: aggressive and

reactive. It describes proactive aggression as being structured, emotionally detached,

and driven by the desire for a reward. In response to a perceived threat or precipitant,

reactive aggression is defined as impulsive, and is usually associated with intense

emotion, particularly anxiety or anger. Contrary to the bully's stereotype which is socially

insecure seeking to make him or herself feel better, bullies who have never been the

victims of bullying have very high self-esteem and appear to be social climbers. Child

and adult bullies appear to have poor anger tolerance, difficulty empathizing with others

and a tendency to see their victims' harmless acts as threatening. Compared with non-

bullies they are more likely to suffer from a mental health problem. Many non-victimized

bullies are considered to be bi-strategic leaders, using both prosocial actions (such as

likeability and popularity) and negative actions (such as bullying or coercing others) to

engage in such hurtful behaviors towards others.

Bullies who have themselves been the victim of bullying (bully / victims) tend to be more

aggressive than bullies who have never been a victim of bullying. They tend to be less

influential, more often bullied by their peers, abused or otherwise ignored and come

from lower social classes. Bullying bystanders, those who experience it but are not the

main bully nor the victims, appear to react to what they believe is social pressure to

encourage bullying conduct and fear of being the bully's victims unless they stop the

action. Therefore, bystanders are at risk of committing themselves to bullying if they

promote bullying by paying attention or laughing at the action.

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Lost things, unexplained injuries, and a small number of friends are signs that may

signify that a child will be bullied. Symptoms experienced by bullying victims can be

physical, emotional and conductual. Symptoms of physical symptoms include those

often associated with stress, such as headaches, stomach aches, appetite changes,

bedwetting, dizziness, and general pain and anxiety. Psychological symptoms may

include irritability, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance, regular nightmares, morning

tiredness, frustration, helplessness and lonely feeling. Victims of bullying may also show

behavioral signs such as avoiding social interactions, going to school or work late,

taking off for more days, leaving school without telling parents, or even trying to react

against their enemies. Its grades may decline and become self-destructive.

II. REFLECTION ON BULLYING INCLUDING THE CONSEQUENCES

OF NOT ADDRESSING IT

a) Reflection on Bullying

Bullying is a serious issue. Whether it's mental, cyber, or physical, bullying can in many

ways change a person's life. Some people may take a positive route from being bullied

and speak up about their struggle. They may be seeking medical support to cope with

healing and deal with it. Others, who want nothing to do, don't reach out to help. They

may become depressed, and think of thoughts of suicide. These harassment victims

realize they can no longer handle life themselves so they commit suicide. Additional

people can develop eating disorders because of their weight, if they have been bullied.

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The bullies' victims can cut themselves or hurt themselves in secret. Why do people,

particularly teens, believe they need to end their lives to stop all the hurt?

I don't understand such intimidators personally. Why would a human being want to

humiliate someone else to the point of no return? They make people feel so bad about

themselves that they are taking drastic steps to try to change their way of being. Are

they confidentially self-aware of themselves? Should they feel guilty about their way of

looking, and they take it out onto others? Such situations seem like selfish reasons to

make someone else feel bad. Those tormentors will be punished no matter what the

cause.

I believe more anti-bullying rules will be passed to prevent such bullies and convict

them. More often than not, I see and hear accounts of teenagers being abused to the

extent they might harm themselves. Just think about how many times you've heard on

the news, or read about another fatal bullying victim in the paper for a moment. By

establishing more laws we can stop the bully from acting. We cannot undo the past, but

we can do away with future attacks.

We will come together as a country to help those victims. When you see someone

getting threatened speak up. Could cause one of your peers their lives by not saying

anything. By not doing something, teenagers don't know it can be as negative or

negative as the actual bullying. I believe we can conquer bullies, and avoid their

negative ways, if we all work together. By thinking about bullying, it would mean

everybody knows about it, and the bullies will no longer hide. Spread the word on

bullying so it ends.

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b) Consequences of not addressing the issue- Bullying

Risk factors for becoming a victim of bullying include a limited intelligence of emotional

or social interactions, a propensity to get frustrated quickly or anxious or depressed

already. The victim's real or suspected obesity is a contributing factor, too. Being

underweight is related slightly to being bullied. Compared to their straight peers,

homosexual, lesbian, bisexual or transgender teenagers are most frequently the victims

of bullying. Kids with disabilities, refugees, or disproportionately minority results are

even more vulnerable to bullying.

c) Possible Outcomes

Schools and classrooms which aim to help all children tend to prevent bullying.

Effective school-based bullying awareness campaigns tend to be school-wide and

involve educating students , teachers, administrators , and parents about what bullying

is and how harmful it is to all involved, understanding how others may view victims, and

how to get help. Annual surveys of children will help to keep awareness about how

serious the issue about bullying is in a school. Simply informing the parents of bullying

victims tends to improve the standard of living for the victim child. Effective anti-bullying

programs improve the oversight of playgrounds, offer concrete results for bullying and

teach students who are observers how to stand up for victims so that bullying activity

creates attention rather than social benefit.

Workplace approaches that appear to be successful are similar to those in education, in

that workplace-wide strategies are introduced. Coworkers and supervisors are

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encouraged to address each other by name and with respect, participate fully in the

required tasks and avoid chattering over each other or excluding anyone from

conversation.

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http://www.teenink.com/opinion/social_issues_civics/article/472156/My-Reflection-on-
Bullying
Roxanne Dryden-Edwards, M. (2019, 7 15). MedicinenNet. From MedicinenNet:
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