School Bullying as a Collective Action: Stigma Processes and Identity Struggling

Children and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 310-320

  Thornberg, Robert ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blaming the victim; Bullying; Dehumanisation; Grounded theory; Identity; Labelling; Social interaction; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930271161     PISSN: 09510605     EISSN: 10990860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/chso.12058     Document Type: Article

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