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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Der vil ud fra den nævnte problemstilling, blive anvendt teoretiske fortolkninger af de
udviklingstendenser der ses hos de unges livshistorier i den indsamlede empiri. I projektet anvendes
kritiske teoretikere såsom Anders Petersen og Hartmut Rosa. Disse teorier vil bruges i forhold til at
undersøges hvordan unge mennesker formår at håndtere deres nye hverdagsliv under Covid-19
pandemien, samt hvilke betydninger det kan have for deres oplevelsesverden, herunder deres
livstilfredshed og mentale helbred. Disse temaer knytter sig an til ungdomskulturen i
præstationssamfundet. Det teoretiske afsæt i projektet, vil med det empiriske fund søge at belyse og
finde hvilke årsagssammenhænge og virkningsmekanismer der kan påvirke de unge
gymnasiestuderende.
Præstationssamfundet
Præstationssamfundet kendetegner ifølge Anders Pedersens et samfund hvor individet skal
underlægge sig krav og normer for idealisering som individ (Petersen, 2016, s.62). Petersen mener
at præstation kan sidestilles som en social kompetence, da det kræver en stor selvdisciplinering for
den enkelte at forvalte de normer for idealisering. Her peger Petersen blandt andet på at evne
sociale kompetencer, ved at indoptage nogle særlige idealer, som nutidens mennesker forsøger at
indordne sig under (Ibid.). Den mentale trivsel kan muligvis have indflydelse på fravær af værdier
som de unge tilskriver sig selv i et præstationssamfund (Petersen, 2016 s.58).
Specialeprojektet skal ses i lyset af præstationssamfundet. Derfor vil det vil være grundlæggende at
vide hvordan samfundet har gennemgået en forandring, for at kunne belyse om de unge har oplevet
en ændring i de sociale normer. Præstationssamfundet anvendes til at undersøge udviklingen
omkring unges sociale normer og hvad nedlukningerne af samfundet har betydet for de unges nye
hverdag gennem de seneste to nedlukninger under Covid-19 pandemien.
Forforståelse om samfundsstruktur
Min forforståelse, underbygges af den eksisterende empiri som findes på området, som vil uddybes
i afsnittet om baggrund. I forhold til præstationssamfundet er det således, at det muligvis kan have
vist sig positive indvirkninger på de unges hverdag, forstået således at der kan være en fordel ved et
samfund pålægger forbud og restriktioner. Jeg har også en forståelse af hvad en præstationskultur er
og hvordan der sættes høje krav til at leve op til egne visioner, og andres forventninger til hvad man
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