Bullying in children and adolescents has become a pervasive problem in the schools of post-modern American society.  In the research on bullying, however, bullying for the most part is a taken for granted notion.  Furthermore, for many researchers, understanding the phenomena of bullying is subservient to panicked calls for its immediate eradication.  As a result of not fully understanding the purposes and projects involved in the bullying of others, many researchers and clinicians end up