Bullying

In her forceful social history, Bullying, Laura Martocci investigates how tragedies ranging from school shootings to teen suicides have focused national attention on a "bully culture" that thrives on humiliation. But how-and why-have we arrived at where we are, culturally and socially? Bullying offe [...]
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In her forceful social history, Bullying, Laura Martocci investigates how tragedies ranging from school shootings to teen suicides have focused national attention on a "bully culture" that thrives on humiliation. But how-and why-have we arrived at where we are, culturally and socially? Bullying offers a cogent analysis of the social forces sustaining various levels of ridicule, exclusion, and rejection. Martocci probes the destructive behavior of gossip, laughter, stereotyping, and competition: dynamics that foment bullying and prompt responses of shame, violence, and depression. She argues that these dynamics themselves contain the seeds of resistance to ongoing social abuse and psychological devastation. This book is a necessary wake-up call urging us to acknowledge the nature of the damage-the pain and confusion caused by shame, an emotion that we, as a culture, deny. Identifying shame as a break in social connection, from which victims require the possibility of "redemption" and reconnection, Martocci offers a novel perspective on bullying, one that builds upon social and personal supports for victims that are already in place.