Posted by desolationrower on May 13, 2009, at 15:00:13
In reply to Re: Bullying and subsequent psychosis, posted by Sigismund on May 11, 2009, at 1:59:32
> I wonder if the prevalence of bullying has anything to do with whether the group is at the atomized or communitarian end of the scale.
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> I think it might.yeah, i think the difference between a zero-sum hierarchy and a group situation where sink or swim together is important. thus something like high school where theres no sense of group purpose the most important thing is make clear one's higher status relative to someone else. various organizations/teams had much less of this, though the larger team had more since the worst players really didn't contribute anything. and lots of this is picked up from larger cultural values/parents/staff.
-d/r
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