TEKİRDAĞ ÖLÇEĞİNDE AKRAN ZORBALIĞI ARAŞTIRMASI VE BULGULARIN DEĞERLENDİRMESİ
THE SURVEY RESULTS OF PEER VICTIMIZATION IN TEKIRDAĞ AND THE EVALUATION OF THE RESULTS

Summary/Abstract: Schools are one of the most important actors of socialization process. One of the sociological facts which exist in this process is peer victimization. Peer victimization appears as a part of bullying at school. Victimization is a sort of aggressive behaviour. It is defined as “one or more students’ negative actions towards another student permanently.” Bully is the person who commits this behaviour, and victim is the person who is exposed to the mistreatment. In the district of Tekirdağ, peer victimization is researched and surveyed. While conducting the research, some social, economic and cultural criteria are considered, and schools that represent Tekirdağ city centre are chosen, where some. 650 students are interviewed, among whom 49,8% are boys and 50,2% are girls. Owing to this research, the following matters are questioned: the situation of victimization; the place of peer victimization; how victims feel after being subjected to the bully; how they react again stubbly; whom they confide to talk about the bully; who are the bullies; if the victim himself/herself impose mistreatment to other people, and how; if he/she witnesses peer victimization, what does the person do. According to the survey carried out, the percentage of peer victimization in Tekirdağ is 44%, but the average percentage of bully overall in Turkey is 26-40%. The results show that the percentage of peer victimization in Tekirdağ is higher than the average percentage in Turkey. This result points of a very significant sociological problem in Tekirdağ.

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