En kvalitativ undersøgelse af danske gymnasiestuderendes oplevelser af fælleskaber, hverdagsliv & mental sundhed
In this project have I investigated how the young high school age population in Denmark has experienced and coped with a different everyday life during the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, several major impacts was done from a government and world leaders chair. Traveling got restricted. The nightlife was shut down, the cafes and restaurants was shut down, and for a longer time period everyone had to work from home, this is referred as the “lockdown”. This raises the question what possible consequences the lockdowns have had for young people in high school ages mental wellbeing. What I have done through qualitative research interviews is to find 3 informants through several sources like Facebook and networking through the municipality and private contacts. The young people who I was looking for, and found, all have in common that they are attending high school. What was interesting to discover was that they all have experienced difficulties during the pandemic. Some of the difficulties involved the limiting of socializing with friends and family, and problem of getting new friends when starting in a new school. But there are also benefits like the realization of getting closer to the friends that you do keep in contact with during the lockdown, if it is on an online platform, through video games, or it is outdoors in person. Theoretically have I used expressions regarding social pathologies like Hartmut Rosas theory about acceleration and resonance. How the social acceleration is defined from a constant competition that we must live up to with each other, and how this is broken down during the lockdown. Another is Anders Petersens theory about the performance society and how everyone must achieve certain goals in life to have fulfilled their purpose. On that behalf it’s concluded that the informants way of perceiving their stories about changed relationships to friends, family and the surrounding society, the importance of everyday life, has been different during the two lockdowns. In the first lockdown there was a relief from the social pressure regarding social life but also on the studies, whereas the second challenged the mental pressure of reaching the high bar of the norms because the pressure for achieving was just as high as before the lockdowns. Listening to the challenged youth, and how they experience the lockdowns, can show the changes in society and the consequences, for these individuals.
In this project have I investigated how the young high school age population in Denmark has experienced and coped with a different everyday life during the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, several major impacts was done from a government and world leaders chair. Traveling got restricted. The nightlife was shut down, the cafes and restaurants was shut down, and for a longer time period everyone had to work from home, this is referred as the “lockdown”. This raises the question what possible consequences the lockdowns have had for young people in high school ages mental wellbeing.
What I have done through qualitative research interviews is to find 3 informants through several sources like Facebook and networking through the municipality and private contacts. The young people who I was looking for, and found, all have in common that they are attending high school. What was interesting to discover was that they all have experienced difficulties during the pandemic. Some of the difficulties involved the limiting of socializing with friends and family, and problem of getting new friends when starting in a new school.
But there are also benefits like the realization of getting closer to the friends that you do keep in contact with during the lockdown, if it is on an online platform, through video games, or it is outdoors in person.
Theoretically have I used expressions regarding social pathologies like Hartmut Rosas theory about acceleration and resonance. How the social acceleration is defined from a constant competition that we must live up to with each other, and how this is broken down during the lockdown.
Another is Anders Petersens theory about the performance society and how everyone must achieve certain goals in life to have fulfilled their purpose.
On that behalf it’s concluded that the informants way of perceiving their stories about changed relationships to friends, family and the surrounding society, the importance of everyday life, has been different during the two lockdowns. In the first lockdown there was a relief from the social pressure regarding social life but also on the studies, whereas the second challenged the mental pressure of reaching the high bar of the norms because the pressure for achieving was just as high as before the lockdowns. Listening to the challenged youth, and how they experience the lockdowns, can show the changes in society and the consequences, for these individuals.
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af holdninger og værdier, mode og livsstil, klasse miljø, og sociale relationer ændrer sig i større
tempo (Rosa, 2016. s.23), dette vil undersøges nærmere ved udførelsen af forskningsmæssige
interview af de unges oplevelser.
Acceleration af social forandring
Det teoretiske begreb “social acceleration” præsenteret af Hartmut Rosa, hjælper os med at forstå,
hvad der er på spil, når de sociale relationer ændrer sig i takt med samfundsstrukturen.
Hartmut Rosa benytter begrebet acceleration af social forandring, som er en ændring der sker på
baggrund af sociale relationer, som ændrer sig i større forandringstempo (Rosa, 2016. s.23). Social
acceleration defineres ved at man ikke længere kan stole på erfaringer og forventninger og ved en
sammentrækning af det tidsrum, der kan siges at udgøre nuet (Rosa. 2016. s.24). Det kommer for
eksempel til udtryk, når man konstant skal tilpasse sig nye forandringer i hverdagen, eller når
relationen til venner og familie ændres, som konsekvens af samfundsmæssige påvirkninger. Rosa
peger herudover på at der er sket en social forandring i hvordan mennesker anskuer parforhold
mellem køn og social status, og en ændring af beskæftigelsesstrukturen, hvor det ikke længere er at
gå i forældrenes fodspor, men at erhverv og familieliv ikke skal defineres ud fra familie (Rosa.
2016. s.25).
Acceleration af livs tempoet
Den tredje kategorisering af acceleration er acceleration af livs tempoet, som ifølge Rosa defineres
på baggrund af måden menneskets behov for at gøre flere ting på mindre tid (Rosa. 2016. s.26).
Denne form for acceleration er typisk også det der fører til at mennesket udsættes for et pres, som
typisk kan gøre mennesker syge af stress (Ibid.). Det er derfor relevant i forhold til informanternes
subjektive fortællinger til at forstå hvorledes påvirkning i forhold til præstation har større relevans
under Covid-19 nedlukningen. Rosa definerer livs tempoet for “kompression af handlinger og
erfaringer” (Rosa, 2016. s.28). Denne form for tempo bedriver mennesket til at skulle gøre mere,
erfare mere, konstant pres for at skulle opnå en masse ting på samme tid. Det vil være interessant at
undersøge nærmere i projektet hvorvidt informanterne oplever en ændring i forhold til om
forventninger kan anskues som en forværring af det mentale helbred eller en begrænsning af
tempoet til forventninger til dem selv under Covid-19 nedlukningerne. Denne tidsoptimering, kan
medføre belastninger, for det moderne menneske, som konstant er på jagt efter optimering (Ibid.).
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