ABSTRACT

In the field of critical bullying studies, norms and normality have been used to explain bullying in a manner that challenges the mainstream conceptualising of bullying. This study concentrates in a more detailed way on how normality and not-normality are connected to bullying and how the students define not-normality as a reason for bullying. I used ethnographic interviews of 48 students to examine the connection between bullying and normality. I found that the students that were defined as ‘not-normal’ were excluded from the school community, but some of them found ways to confront and negotiate their position in the processes of bullying. By describing students who were bullied as not-normal, the bullying was a means to maintain the norms and normality at the school. Thus, in this article, I name a new field of research, the field of critical bullying studies in which the bullying is connected to the norms and normality and it is thus also a structural issue and not only a question of the behaviour of an individual.

摘要

在批判性欺凌研究领域，规范和常态已被用来以挑战主流欺凌概念化的方式来解释欺凌行为。本研究以更详细的方式集中研究正常和非正常如何与欺凌相关，以及学生如何将非正常定义为欺凌的原因。我通过对 48 名学生的民族志访谈来检验欺凌与正常行为之间的联系。我发现被定义为“不正常”的学生被排除在学校社区之外，但他们中的一些人找到了在欺凌过程中对抗和协商自己立场的方法。通过将被欺负的学生描述为不正常，欺凌是维持学校规范和常态的一种手段。因此，在这篇文章中，我命名了一个新的研究领域，