”Om mänskligheten skulle dö ut… det är kanske inte så illa ändå” : En studie i socialt arbete om ungdomars resonemang kring klimatförändringar.
(2020) SOPA63 20192School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The aim of this study was to examine how adolescents reason about climate change and how they themselves perceive that climate change affects their emotions and social interactions. Climate change is one of the greatest issues of modern time and adolescents are the ones who to a higher extent will have to face the issue in the future. The present study is based on semi-structured interviews with six adolescents ranging between eighteen and nineteen years old. It focuses on the significance given to the notion of climate change by the interviewees, how they reason about their own and others' emotions in relation to climate change and what meaning climate change has in their social interactions. To analyse the material we used the theories... (More)
- The aim of this study was to examine how adolescents reason about climate change and how they themselves perceive that climate change affects their emotions and social interactions. Climate change is one of the greatest issues of modern time and adolescents are the ones who to a higher extent will have to face the issue in the future. The present study is based on semi-structured interviews with six adolescents ranging between eighteen and nineteen years old. It focuses on the significance given to the notion of climate change by the interviewees, how they reason about their own and others' emotions in relation to climate change and what meaning climate change has in their social interactions. To analyse the material we used the theories of symbolic interactionism and sociology of emotions. Our results show that there is a common understanding among the adolescents that changes in the climate and subsequently in the environment are currently happening because of human activities. Through their social interactions they are creating and cocreating the meaning of climate change, making the notion of climate change an embedded part of their understanding of changes in their nearby environment. Negative emotions, such as grief, stress, worry and fear, are dominant emotions expressed in relation to climate change. Lastly, a norm discussed by the interviewees is that they are expected to act environmentally friendly. This behaviour is reinforced in their social interactions, through processes of identification and by seeing themselves through the eyes of others. In this way climate change forms part of their identity building. (Less)
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- author
- Hansson, Elin LU and Roxendal, Sandra LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20192
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- climate change, social work, adolescents, emotion, interaction
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9002568
- date added to LUP
- 2020-01-27 16:11:03
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author = {{Hansson, Elin and Roxendal, Sandra}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{”Om mänskligheten skulle dö ut… det är kanske inte så illa ändå” : En studie i socialt arbete om ungdomars resonemang kring klimatförändringar.}},
year = {{2020}},
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