The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools by Klein, Jessie

The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814748886)

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The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools by Klein, Jessie

The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools

$89.00
The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools by Klein, Jessie

The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools

$89.00
Format: Hardcover
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Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013

Through interviews and case studies, Klein develops an explanation for bully behavior in America's schools

In today's schools, kids bullying kids is not an occasional occurrence but rather an everyday reality where children learn early that being sensitive, respectful, and kind earns them no respect. Jessie Klein makes the provocative argument that the rise of school shootings across America, and childhood aggression more broadly, are the consequences of a society that actually promotes aggressive and competitive behavior. The Bully Society is a call to reclaim America's schools from the vicious cycle of aggression that threatens our children and our society at large.

Heartbreaking interviews illuminate how both boys and girls obtain status by acting "masculine"--displaying aggression at one another's expense as both students and adults police one another to uphold gender stereotypes. Klein shows that the aggressive ritual of gender policing in American culture creates emotional damage that perpetuates violence through revenge, and that this cycle is the main cause of not only the many school shootings that have shocked America, but also related problems in schools, manifesting in high rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-cutting, truancy, and substance abuse. After two decades working in schools as a school social worker and professor, Klein proposes ways to transcend these destructive trends--transforming school bully societies into compassionate communities.

Author: Jessie Klein
ISBN-10: 0814748880
ISBN-13: 9780814748886
Publisher: New York University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2012
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.34w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2011
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2012
Chronicle of Higher Education 03/09/2012 pg. 17
New York Times Book Review 04/29/2012 pg. 2
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2012 pg. 196
Choice 10/01/2012

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