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'He's actually very kind': bullying figurations and the call of capital
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education, Teaching and Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0680-0039
Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Chile.
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education, Teaching and Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0715-9703
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education, Teaching and Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9233-3862
2024 (English)In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, ISSN 0142-5692, E-ISSN 1465-3346, Vol. 45, no 6, p. 957-973Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper, we draw on the concepts of figurations, capital, and hegemonic masculinity to analyse a bullying relation involving two fifth-grade boys at a Swedish comprehensive school. The findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork, which included participant observations and group interviews with eight teachers and fourteen students (seven girls and seven boys) from the same class. Our findings demonstrate the complexity of the relation between the boys and suggest that rather than constituting a straight-forward bullying situation involving a problematically aggressive 'bully' targeting a less powerful 'victim', it is part of a more complex figuration involving interdependent social relations that are tenuously balanced in terms of power dynamics and where the boys position themselves and are positioned in relation to the long-term symbolic norms of status dominant within their specific school field.

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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD , 2024. Vol. 45, no 6, p. 957-973
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Bullying; school; figurations; capital; hegemonic masculinity; ethnography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-206354DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2024.2381098ISI: 001273053200001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-206354DiVA, id: diva2:1889672
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Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet) for the project Bullying Arenas: A social-ecological investigation of school bullying [2017-03604]

Available from: 2024-08-16 Created: 2024-08-16 Last updated: 2024-12-03Bibliographically approved

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