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Ungdomstid, Framtid, Vuxentid : gymnasieungdomars tankar kring utbildning, karriär, vagabonderande och familjebildande

Ek, Malin and Kniberg, Anett (2005)
School of Social Work
Abstract
The purpose of this essay was to study how youths think about their youth and future. Our intention was to study in which order of priority today's high school students in Helsingborg ranked family life, education, career and vagabonding. We also investigated what the term adolescence meant to them.

Our main questions were how our respondents looked upon their youth and their future. In which way did they give priority to family life, education, career and vagabonding and why did they give these priorities? Which meaning did the respondents lay in the term adolescence?

The study was based on interviews with seven young people, studying at a communal high school in Helsingborg. We established contact with these young people through the... (More)
The purpose of this essay was to study how youths think about their youth and future. Our intention was to study in which order of priority today's high school students in Helsingborg ranked family life, education, career and vagabonding. We also investigated what the term adolescence meant to them.

Our main questions were how our respondents looked upon their youth and their future. In which way did they give priority to family life, education, career and vagabonding and why did they give these priorities? Which meaning did the respondents lay in the term adolescence?

The study was based on interviews with seven young people, studying at a communal high school in Helsingborg. We established contact with these young people through the principal at the high school. The outcome of this study was that young people today have great plans for their future which in order often contains a couple of years of higher education, travelling, establishing a career and lowest priority was given to their own establishing of family life. We have acknowledged that the youths wants to have time to do "other things" before they start a family.

Our conclusion, based on the outcome of the interviews, is that the young people in our essay stay young for a longer period of time than generations before them. The result was often in accordance with earlier research. (Less)
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author
Ek, Malin and Kniberg, Anett
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organization
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type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
ungdomar, attityder, familjebildning, utbildning, karriär, vuxna, Sociology, Sociologi
language
Swedish
id
1331072
date added to LUP
2005-02-18 00:00:00
date last changed
2005-02-18 00:00:00
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of this essay was to study how youths think about their youth and future. Our intention was to study in which order of priority today's high school students in Helsingborg ranked family life, education, career and vagabonding. We also investigated what the term adolescence meant to them.

Our main questions were how our respondents looked upon their youth and their future. In which way did they give priority to family life, education, career and vagabonding and why did they give these priorities? Which meaning did the respondents lay in the term adolescence?

The study was based on interviews with seven young people, studying at a communal high school in Helsingborg. We established contact with these young people through the principal at the high school. The outcome of this study was that young people today have great plans for their future which in order often contains a couple of years of higher education, travelling, establishing a career and lowest priority was given to their own establishing of family life. We have acknowledged that the youths wants to have time to do "other things" before they start a family.

Our conclusion, based on the outcome of the interviews, is that the young people in our essay stay young for a longer period of time than generations before them. The result was often in accordance with earlier research.}},
  author       = {{Ek, Malin and Kniberg, Anett}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Ungdomstid, Framtid, Vuxentid : gymnasieungdomars tankar kring utbildning, karriär, vagabonderande och familjebildande}},
  year         = {{2005}},
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