Bully among teenagers

Hello everyone! We are here to talk about our picked issue which is “Bully among teenagers”. Hope this post will tell you a bit about how it really reflects in social change.

What is bullying?
Bullying includes a wide variety of behaviors, but all involve a person or a group repeatedly trying to harm someone who is weaker or more vulnerable. It can involve direct attacks (such as hitting, threatening or intimidating, maliciously teasing and taunting, name-calling, making sexual remarks, and stealing or damaging belongings) or more subtle, indirect attacks (such as spreading rumors or encouraging others to reject or exclude someone).

The key words here are - person or a group repeatedly trying to harm someone who is weaker or more vulnerable.

Components of Change

Identity of change
Identity of change is something that gives impact to the social structure. Social structure is the patterns of behavior that includes statuses, roles, groups, and institutions such as family, religion, politics and the economic system. In this issue, the identity of change can be identifying through how the bullying among teenagers can gives impact to the social behavior. In this case, we look into the person that had been the victim of bullying. The impact of bully can caused emotion unstable. This includes trauma, afraid and the most obvious impact is social isolation. If bullying continues for some time, it can begin to affect teens' self-esteem and feelings of self-worth. It also can increase their social isolation, leading them to become withdrawn and depressed, anxious and insecure.

Level of change
It is referring to the teenagers, the one that had been the victim. It can be seen through their behavior, before and after they had been victimized. We categorized the change as planned change. This is because, the intention to bully placed on the person or group who tend to do so. They can plan whether to bully or not to bully.

Duration of change
Referring to level of change, as long as the person or a group have the intention to bully, so the duration will be within the time they tend to do so. Meaning to say, as long as they do bully, duration of change will continue.

Magnitude of change
We classified magnitude of change of the issue to be in the form of incremental. The issue of bullying had existed since old time. We can say that, it will continuously exist as long as there a person or a group has the intention to bully.

Rate of change
The rate of change is continuous. As to justify, the issue of bullying never stop if there is no efforts to curb it. The roles by parents and teachers are important in a way to overcome the issue of bullying.

Variables of Change

Technology
The person or groups that have the tendency to bully had been influenced by the mass media. It can be seen through program like World Wrestling Federation (WWF), a story about violence, and also video game which is the biggest influence among teenagers.

Conflict
It can be seen through conflict of the individuals who have the tendency to bully where they wants to take control over other or releasing their stress and also conflict between the individual and the parents through different understanding.

Economic
Bully can be in term of money. They go over person who is defenseless and collect the money. How it relates to economic? A person who intend to bully might be come from different background. They can be rich or suffer from poverty. They tend to continue bullying to serve their own necessities such as pocket money or food.