Violence in Schools: A Sociological Approach

Résumé

The social approach considers the environment of the children which can encourage violence. The environment includes parents, teachers, peers and etc. The antisocial behavior can be aggravated to violence that can be aggravated to delinquency. In an effort to understand more clearly the sociological differences, there is a subdivision of the non-members of groups of peers according to their predominant reference group. In effect, there is an attempt to find out from the children themselves whether they regarded their own values as being closer to the values of their parents, or closer to the values of the other children in the school class. This enabled us to classify children roughly into those who were more apt to use parents as a reference group or to use peers as reference group.