Mobbning - ett groupthink-fenomen? : En gruppsykologisk fördjupning av mobbning
(2004)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this essay was to examine and shed light on bullying as a groupprocess, a social phenomenon taking place in a school setting, to increase the understanding of the phenomenon. A theoretical overview of the litterature on bullying was made to investigate bullying and to give the reader a view of the researchfield. A total of 77 articles was studied. With the intention of studying bullying from a groupsychology perspective a metaanalysis was performed discussing groupphenomenon such as rolebehavior, responsibility, cohesiveness and norms in comparison to bullying episodes.
Stemming from this analysis the question whether bullying can be view as a response to groupthink emerged. This question also constituted the secondary aim... (More) - The purpose of this essay was to examine and shed light on bullying as a groupprocess, a social phenomenon taking place in a school setting, to increase the understanding of the phenomenon. A theoretical overview of the litterature on bullying was made to investigate bullying and to give the reader a view of the researchfield. A total of 77 articles was studied. With the intention of studying bullying from a groupsychology perspective a metaanalysis was performed discussing groupphenomenon such as rolebehavior, responsibility, cohesiveness and norms in comparison to bullying episodes.
Stemming from this analysis the question whether bullying can be view as a response to groupthink emerged. This question also constituted the secondary aim of this thesis. Using the material from the first part of the thesis a theoretical discussion was constituted laborating with the hypothesis that bullying can be viewed as a groupthinkphenomenon. Janis' concept of groupthink was used as a basis for the discussion. The conclusion of the analysis was that since bullying is performed in a social setting there's evidence that the group in which the bullying takes place is part of and directly effect the prevalence of bullying. Whether bullying can be seen as a groupthinkphenomenon or not was not concluded and further research is needed to examine the effects of the group in bullying episodes. (Less)
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- author
- Heintz, Maria
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2004
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- mobbning, roller, normer, gruppsykologi, Social psychology, Socialpsykologi
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1333742
- date added to LUP
- 2004-12-16 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2004-12-20 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The purpose of this essay was to examine and shed light on bullying as a groupprocess, a social phenomenon taking place in a school setting, to increase the understanding of the phenomenon. A theoretical overview of the litterature on bullying was made to investigate bullying and to give the reader a view of the researchfield. A total of 77 articles was studied. With the intention of studying bullying from a groupsychology perspective a metaanalysis was performed discussing groupphenomenon such as rolebehavior, responsibility, cohesiveness and norms in comparison to bullying episodes.
Stemming from this analysis the question whether bullying can be view as a response to groupthink emerged. This question also constituted the secondary aim of this thesis. Using the material from the first part of the thesis a theoretical discussion was constituted laborating with the hypothesis that bullying can be viewed as a groupthinkphenomenon. Janis' concept of groupthink was used as a basis for the discussion. The conclusion of the analysis was that since bullying is performed in a social setting there's evidence that the group in which the bullying takes place is part of and directly effect the prevalence of bullying. Whether bullying can be seen as a groupthinkphenomenon or not was not concluded and further research is needed to examine the effects of the group in bullying episodes.}},
author = {{Heintz, Maria}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Mobbning - ett groupthink-fenomen? : En gruppsykologisk fördjupning av mobbning}},
year = {{2004}},
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