Writer:Dr JOANNE TSIGKANOU *
misleading or Maximized images, representations and
representations that do not facilitate an understanding and deal with it. This
study is an effort in this direction. Violence at school can be clearly external
overt social behaviour as a form of exercise «violence», expression or internal
coercion, the pursuit of «psychological violence». The same school produced
intense forms of physical violence in the past, as the rod, the slap, the
haircut, «the genuflection and malnutrition» etc., are now rare (Dimaras, 1986). You may argue that school power today based
on the most physical violence and manipulation in the agreement, brought to the
internalization of repression and instillation. These more mild forms of enforcement
are in compliance by individual research topics. Then, violence in school is a
phenomenon that can be fully understood as part of broader social control of
education in a society with unequal distribution of wealth, privilege and
power. The school is an institution which requires mandatory involvement in
specific social and cultural relations historically specific to a certain type
of school, which means: a) Mandatory joint monitoring, mandatory program and
course content from students / only three different physical conditions and
cultural experiences. b) Relationship sovereignty, hierarchy, surveillance and
control, accompanied with fees / rewards of success or culture «tort victims»,
in cases of failure. c) Compliance with the standards and the ritual of the
school, such as accuracy of the turnout, regular attendance, good behaviour and
ways and generally obedience techniques (bell) and social (teacher) checks and
commands, which contributes to good or bad evaluation of the student conduct (Wolfrang, 1998, Mafrogiorgos,
1995, Milonas, 1994). In light of this, it is
necessary to investigate the political function of the institution as a state
school and as ideological mechanism not just in the process of transmitting
knowledge and skills or social selection and distribution of persons in
positions of existing hierarchical social division of labour.
* Lawyer, Doctor of Sociology of Crime (London School of Economics 1988),
research director and deputy director of the Institute of Political Sociology
at the National Centre for Social Research.
ELEFTHEROTYPIA - 29/03/2008
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