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Bullying is the use of coercion, force, or threat,

to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. The
behavior is often repeated and habitual. One
essential prerequisite is the perception (by the bully
or by others) of an imbalance of physical
or social power. This imbalance distinguishes
bullying from conflict.[1] There is no universal
definition of bullying. It is widely agreed upon that
bullying is a subcategory of aggressive behavior
characterized by the following three minimum
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(1) hostile intent, (2) imbalance of power, and (3)

repetition over a period of time.[2] Bullying may thus
be defined as the activity of repeated, aggressive
behavior intended to hurt another individual,
physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Bullying ranges from one-on-one, individual bullying
through to group bullying called NEXT SLIDE

(Mobbing, as a sociological term, means

bullying of an individual by a group, in any
context, such as a family, peer group, school,
workplace, neighborhood, community, or
online.)
mobbing, in which the bully may have one or more
"lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist
the primary bully in their bullying activities. Bullying
in school and the workplace is also referred to as
"peer abuse".[3] NEXT SLIDE

(Peer abuse - occurs when a young person is

exploited, bullied and / or harmed by
their peers who are the same or similar age;
everyone directly involved in peer on peer abuse is
under the age of 18.)

Individual bullying is usually characterized by a

person behaving in a certain way to gain power over
another person.[5]
A bullying culture can develop in any context in
which humans interact with each other. This may
include school, family, the workplace,[6] home, and
neighborhoods. The main platform for bullying is on
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social media websites.
Bullying can be defined in many different ways. In
the United Kingdom, there is no legal definition of
bullying,[9] while some states in the United States
have laws against it.[10] Bullying is divided into four
basic types of abuse NEXT SLIDE
– emotional (sometimes called
relational), verbal, physical, and cyber.[11] It typically
involves subtle methods of coercion, such as
intimidation.
Behaviors used to assert such domination can
include verbal harassment or threat,
physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be
directed repeatedly towards particular targets.

Rationalizations NEXT SLIDE of such behavior

sometimes include differences of social class, race,
religion, gender, sexual orientation, appearance,
behavior, body language, personality, reputation,
lineage, strength, size, or ability.

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