EVALUATE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Question 1

FOR

Answer 1

• Chester investigates trends in bullying and how they were effected by culture
• analysed self reports from 33 countries
• surveys conducted at 3 points in time
• some showed significant decrease in levels of bullying over this time such as Denmark
• some fluctuated such as Spain
• change in involvement for one gender but not other eg USA
• bullying decreases faster in some cultures but not other and increases for others
• supported by Qing Li

Question 2

AGAINST

Answer 2

• method issues with Chester
• definition of bullying is different in othe cultures
• Craig found that in nearly all cultures only a minority are involved in bullying behaviour and males more likely involved and bully and victim
• central components of bullying is present in all cultures
• bullying may be present in all cultures but takes on different forms

Question 3

APPLICATION

Answer 3

• knowing these differences in cultures means that bullying programmes can be developed differently and therefore more effectively
• Rayner and Keashly suggest education programmes drawing attention to research that shows bullying is harmful to achievement an therefore performance and cost

Question 4

ALTERNATIVE

Answer 4

• suggesting culture is the only cause for bullying is reductionist and ignores other equally plausible explanations