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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“(...) faktisk er alle sociale institutioner, strukturer og interaktioner processuelle af væsen og
indbefatter derfor tidslige mønstre” (Rosa, 2014, s.77).
For at forstå hvad der er på spil, vil jeg trække på Hartmut Rosa beskrivelser af, hvordan tiden anses
at være et kerneelement i alle dens dimensioner, og man derfor godt kan få noget positivt ud af at
afspejle sig i noget andet end en velkendt hverdag. Denne afspejling i noget andet, fremfor en
velkendt hverdag, gør sig også gældende for Karolines vedkommende, da hun stadigvæk mødes
med hendes veninde, og de har sammen fundet det interessant at begynde at hækle sammen,
Karoline løber også for at opnå en ro. De tidslige strukturerer, er hermed med til at kunne opleve at
dyrke nye interesser i hverdagen.
“(...) jeg vil imidlertid lægge ud med funktionalistisk kritik af social acceleration i kapitel 11. Her
vil jeg hævde, at selv hvis man ser bort fra enhver normativ betragtning, truer det hæsblæsende
tempo af senmodernitetens sociale interaktioner med at underminere det moderne samfunds evne til
at reproducere sig selv” (Rosa, 2014, s. 72).
Rosa nævner, hvordan den sociale acceleration i det senmoderne samfund grundlæggende er en
trussel for samfundet, da han ligeledes mener at den sociale acceleration underminerer evnen til at
reproducere sig selv. Den sociale acceleration kan derfor tolkes som at mennesket i det senmoderne
samfund, lever med fastlåste rammer og velkendte hverdag, som underminere informanternes måde
at anvende deres tid, Lars nævner, at der normalt ikke er tid til så meget i den travle hverdag,
hvorfor han ligesom Charlotte og Karoline under Covid-19 nedlukningen har fundet frem til at
omstille sig på nye måder, gennem nye interesser som han især har fundet plads til at blomstre, og
skabe nogle nye interesser som har fået grobund i en forandret hverdag. Det nedsatte tempo som har
haft betydning for strukturen for hverdagslivet, vil uddybes i afsnit 2.2.
Analysedel 2.2: nye udfordringer forbundet med at skabe struktur for
hverdagslivet
I forbindelse med den ovennævnte ændrede struktur for hverdagslivet hos de unge, er der hos alle
informanter også fundet nogle udfordringer. Lars nævner blandt andet hans udfordringer til
spørgsmålet, om det er svært at finde struktur i en forandret hverdag. Selvom Lars har brugt mere
tid på onlinespil, så føler han stadigvæk at det kan være udfordrende at finde nye hobbies til at
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