Societal and cultural considerations in understanding peer bullying in India

Bullying as a repeated abuse of power in young people has often been studied from the psychological or individual student standpoint of the roles taken by the perpetrator, victim bully-victim, and bystander. In this chapter, however, we want to present a new perspective – one that fore- grounds bullying as a social practice embedded in cultural values and relationships. MLA 9th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.) Peter K. Smith, et al. Bullying, Cyberbullying and Student Well-Being in Schools : Comparing European, Australian and Indian Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, 2018. APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.) Peter K. Smith, Suresh Sundaram, Barbara A. Spears, Catherine Blaya, Mechthild Schäfer, & Damanjit Sandhu. (2018). Bullying, Cyberbullying and Student Well-Being in Schools : Comparing European, Australian and Indian Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.