bullying

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, bythe bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbalharassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts maybe directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Justifications and rationalizations for such behavior sometimes include differences of social class, race, religion, gender, sexualorientation, appearance, behavior, body language, personality, reputation,lineage, strength, size or ability.[1][2] If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing.[3] "Targets" of bullying are also sometimesreferred to as "victims" of bullying.
Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legal definition of bullying,[4] while some U.S. states have laws against it.[5] Bullyingconsists of four basic types of abuse – emotional (sometimes called relational), verbal, physical, and cyber.[6] It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation.
Bullying rangesfrom simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his or her bullying activities.Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse.[7] Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rankism.
A bullying culture can develop in any context in which humanbeings interact with each other. This includes school, family, the workplace, home, and neighborhoods. In a 2012 study of male adolescent football players, "the strongest predictor was the perceptionof whether the most influential male in a player's life would approve of the bullying behavior".[8]
El acoso escolar (también conocido como hostigamiento escolar, matonaje escolar, matoneo...