ERIC Number: EJ1436508
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-5692
EISSN: EISSN-1465-3346
'He's Actually Very Kind': Bullying Figurations and the Call of Capital
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v45 n6 p957-973 2024
In this paper, we draw on the concepts of figurations, capital, and hegemonic masculinity to analyse a bullying relation involving two fifth-grade boys at a Swedish comprehensive school. The findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork, which included participant observations and group interviews with eight teachers and fourteen students (seven girls and seven boys) from the same class. Our findings demonstrate the complexity of the relation between the boys and suggest that rather than constituting a straight-forward bullying "situation" involving a problematically aggressive 'bully' targeting a less powerful 'victim', it is part of a more complex "figuration" involving interdependent social relations that are tenuously balanced in terms of power dynamics and where the boys position themselves and are positioned in relation to the long-term symbolic norms of status dominant within their specific school field.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Males, Bullying, Peer Relationship, Power Structure, Masculinity, Student Behavior, Social Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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