Bullying In Class-peer Interaction

Peer-group, as an social ecological environment in teen-agers, has growing importance for the occurrence and continuation of bullying. Furthermore, the-class-in-school provides a background for peer-interaction and the development of peer. Based on a class in a vocational school, the researcher explore the life-in-classroom of the subjects, including interaction between the students, and the bullying in the classroom. We got those data by participatory-observation-method, questionnaire and interview. The researcher find that the students know about each other in daily life of school, and the cliques grows up in hobbies and activities among some students. Moreover, on the base of selection and differentiation in the subjects, the peer-structure emerges and tends to be stable. In the process of structuring, there is bullying behavior in classroom. And there is an interaction between the structure and the behavior. In conclusion, the interactive model is constructed for the complex relationship between peer-interaction, class-structure and bullying behavior. The study is conducted from two aspects: static and dynamic. On one hand, the author systemize social structures in the class A, from the structuralism, analyze the relationship between subjects of bullying in class-structures, and depict the bullying-behavior-pattern. On the other hand, this thesis tries to review the developing progress of peer-group and the interaction between bullying-subjects, based on synthesizing the good points of process—event analysis. Thus rendering the process of producing and continuing of the behavior. There are three kinds of structures in class, based on power, academic achievement and peer relations. Especially the peer-network, by data from class nomination, shows constructional characteristics: clannish center, decentralized marginalization. And then the members pick up the bully and the victims. On this basis, the thesis is exploring the position and relation of the behavior body, founding that the network plays a major role in interaction and relation between the bodies. In addition, events in the daily life of the students present the complex process of the structures and behavior, from the formation, instability-conflict and play stage. By analyzing the interaction strategy of the behavior bodies, the author concludes the phases and process of bullying-behavior. The study found that members are dividing into ‘center’ and ‘margin’ in daily interaction, and the bulling, which is formed by four stages: testing, malicious attack, game and termination or continuation, is characterized by ’clique- individual’. In conclusion, the fixed structure goes with certain behavior pattern, and interactions with each other. But in the process of bodiesinteraction, relationships of the structure and the behavior are bafflingly complex. So the thesis tries to put forward an ‘interactive model diagram’ to describe the relationships and interactional process of peerinteraction, class structure and the bullying behavior.