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20 - Reflections on bullying in eastern and western perspectives

from Part V - Conclusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

By
Peter K. Smith ,
Keumjoo Kwak  and
Yuichi Toda
Edited by
Peter K. Smith ,
Keumjoo Kwak  and
Yuichi Toda
Peter K. Smith
Affiliation:
Goldsmiths, University of London
Keumjoo Kwak
Affiliation:
Seoul National University
Yuichi Toda
Affiliation:
Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan
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Summary

This final chapter reviews the contributions in the book and ventures some answers, albeit provisional, to the questions - How similar are the findings? What direct comparisons have been made across cultures? And what are the implications for intervention strategies? It first summarises some similarities in the phenomena as found in eastern and western cultures. It then explores the differences, including definitional issues and language terms; types of bullying, who bullies whom, and where bullying happens; prevalence rates and cross-national surveys; ratio of bullies to victims; coping strategies; and attitudes and awareness. A following section looks at how such cultural differences can be explained. Relevant considerations are linguistic issues and measurement issues; school system differences; societal factors of economic level and social inequality; and societal factors such as Hofstede and other dimensions. How these similarities/differences impact on intervention, and how they should, is considered. The study of bullying-like phenomena has become a truly international endeavour, but in the past has been rather dominated by western studies. This book has tried to redress this imbalance.
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School Bullying in Different Cultures
Eastern and Western Perspectives
 , pp. 399 - 419
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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