There are several family theories can help on explaining how serious bullying actual is. The first theory is ecological theory by Bronfenbrenner (Cobb, 2010). Rather than explaining how bullying will negatively influence on children, this theory explains how many ways bullying can happen on children. In this theory, he stated that people are influenced by several social subsystems. The first subsystem that can directly impact on a person is microsystem, which is comprised by family members, peers and teachers. In the microsystem, students directly interact with their peers, and also being directly hurt by them. The fourth group is exosystem. In this system, a broader level of elements will influence on an individual, such as neighbors, mass media or friends of family.
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For instance, a child has been bullied at school due to his or her sexual orientation. However, his or her friends in the neighbor and family do not know anything about this. Suddenly, someone from the school tells a person in the neighborhood about this. Then all the people in the neighbor know it as well. Now, the child’s only buffer zone, which is home, is destroyed. In other words, there are no places for him or her to relief the stress. The last system is macrosystem. It influences the bullying victim population in a large context, such as culture. It is very likely that if a student gets bullied at school, then the rest of the class may look at him or her with prejudice. The next theory that can be applied here is social learning theory (Cobb, 2010). In social learning theory, Albert Bandura talked that people learn new behaviors through observation others’ actions. In this way, younger children would see how older folk offense peers, and then they were very likely to mimic the behaviors. It will lead to a negative circulation, in the way that they would bully their peers as
For instance, a child has been bullied at school due to his or her sexual orientation. However, his or her friends in the neighbor and family do not know anything about this. Suddenly, someone from the school tells a person in the neighborhood about this. Then all the people in the neighbor know it as well. Now, the child’s only buffer zone, which is home, is destroyed. In other words, there are no places for him or her to relief the stress. The last system is macrosystem. It influences the bullying victim population in a large context, such as culture. It is very likely that if a student gets bullied at school, then the rest of the class may look at him or her with prejudice. The next theory that can be applied here is social learning theory (Cobb, 2010). In social learning theory, Albert Bandura talked that people learn new behaviors through observation others’ actions. In this way, younger children would see how older folk offense peers, and then they were very likely to mimic the behaviors. It will lead to a negative circulation, in the way that they would bully their peers as