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 samfundsskabte problemer, er den danske sociolog Anders Petersen optaget af. Han beskriver
samfundet inden Covid-19 pandemiens indtræden for hvordan konkurrencestaten, skaber rovdrift på
mennesker. Derfor vil jeg ved hjælp af Anders Petersen besvare spørgsmål om hvilke betydning de
sociale fællesskaber har haft betydning for de unge, og hvordan disse fællesskaber har været med til
at opfylde de unges sociale behov.
“(...) Så snart vi har opnået et eller andet efterstræbelsesværdigt, vænner vi os til det, og det mister
hurtigt sin attråværdighed, hvorfor vi opfinder nye mål at stræbe efter i en evig jagt, der måske
først slutter med døden” (Brinkmann, 2017.s.14).
Svend Brinkmann definerer i hans bog “Gå glip” (Brinkmann, 2017) hvor han blandt andet kommer
med følgende citat hans bud på, hvordan livet giver mening i forhold til andre mennesker:
“Grundtanken er her, at man kun kan leve op til sine forpligtelser som et menneske, hvis det er
villigt til at gå glip af noget for vedvarende at kunne være der for konkrete andre i livet.”
(Brinkmann, 2017. s14.).
Med denne sætning er det tydeligt hvorvidt det at gå glip er en modsætning til
konkurrencesamfundets præmisser, hvor man konstant skal optimere sin præstation. Denne
præstation defineres af Brinkmann ud fra at mennesket i samfundet ikke skoles til at begrænse sig,
og gå glip af noget, men derimod at der er brug for en oplæring i at finde fokus i en verden af
muligheder og fristelser (Brinkmann, 2017.s.11).
Fællesskabers ændrede betydning i præstationssamfundet
Anders Pedersens definition af præstationssamfundet, indebære at det berører alle, i forhold til at
individet konstant er på jagt efter at stræbe efter mål, for at leve op til de betingelser der er for et
succesfuldt liv. Pedersen definerer mennesket som befinder sig i et vakuum uden sociale normer og
regler, da præstationssamfundet i sig selv er total regel og norm styret (Pedersen, 2016. s.62).
Petersen mener også at mennesket i præstationssamfundet, konstant er på jagt efter incitamenter for
at skabe egen nytte, dette begrundes ligeledes i følgende citat:
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