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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Opretholdelsen af anerkendelse og social status, trods frygt for at miste sansen
for resonans i en forandret hverdag
De unge beskriver alle i interviewene hvordan nedlukninger har krævet at de finder nye strukturer
for hverdagen, og at det giver forskellige udfordringer. Hartmut Rosa beskriver hvordan sociale
interaktioner og sociale koder i det moderne samfund, fastsætter betingelser for at leve op til de
krav og tilkæmpe sig status og anerkendelse herigennem. I kraft af at der under Covid-19
nedlukningen sker en omvæltning af hverdagsstrukturen, oplever informanterne nye udfordringer i
at bevise sit værd og finde anerkendelsesværdige handlinger. Der er tidligere beskrevet hvorvidt
Covid-19 har ændret tempoet for den sociale acceleration, som er en ændring der sker på baggrund
af sociale relationer, der ændrer sig i større forandringstempo (Rosa, 2016. s.23). Det kan give en
manglende følelse i at sanse de relationer informanterne indgår i. Dermed bliver det oplagt at
undersøge hvorvidt den manglende resonans er sammenløbende med begrebet acceleration af social
forandring.
Denne følelse af resonans viser sig tydeligt i Lars udtalelser, når han fortæller at han før oplevede
mødet mellem ham og sine venner som noget han tog for givet, men at han værdsætter den tid han
oplever at have med vennerne under nedlukningerne meget mere. Acceleration af livs tempoet
definerer Rosa som en tilstand der får mennesket i det moderne samfund til at opfatte tiden som
knap, og føle sig forjagede, stressede, fordi de er underlagt et stort tidspres (Rosa, 2014, s.27).
Under Covid-19 er dette tidspres lettet, således at informanterne føler at have mere tid. Ifølge Rosa
er dette en medvirkende årsag til at mennesket i det moderne samfund ikke kan spejle sig i
hinanden, og at det i stedet kan frembringe et liv med mangel på resonans. Dette er en medvirkende
effekt på, at det moderne menneske mister sansen for at mærke relationer på en dybdegående måde
(Rosa, 2014, s.27). Selvom acceleration af livstempoet er blevet opbremset, oplever informanterne
stadigvæk en mangel af resonans, i det at deres samvær med andre er ændret, de ser folk mindre
fysisk, og de er nødsaget til at finde hobbyer som ikke længere involverer venner, i samme omfang
som det gjorde før. Det ser vi for eksempel i Lars fortælling om at han ikke længere kan tage til
svømning eller biografen med sine venner.
Det moderne menneske i det senmoderne samfund, defineres altså ud fra Hartmut Rosa, som
løbende i et hamsterhjul (Rosa, 2014, s.32), hvor tingene mangler mening, og manglen på
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