Våga tro? – en studie om förortsungdomars tankar kring framtida karriärval

Abstract

Nowadays in our society we find it hard for some groups of people to integrate in society. It’s known by media, that the suburbs are presented by a negative view, which often highlights the social problems in these suburbs. We can see that the suburbs still get associated with social problems such as segregation, different attitudes and behaviors, cultural conflicts, poorness etc. This kind of presentation of the suburbs affects not only the society but also the individual living and the personal perception of the individual. These social problems are more likely to affect youths since they, in their process of finding their identity, seem to be more affect able of social problems.

Our purpose with this essay is to research on what these youths living in the suburb think about their future career and further on investigate what kind of reasons there might be that makes them feel confident or non-confident about reaching their future career. Our ambition of this essay is to create understanding of what role identity, place identity and neighborhood effects plays in order to find out what they think about their future career. In order to reach our purpose, we used semi structured interviews.

The result of this research showed that the youths we interviewed only had positive thoughts about the suburb and didn’t find any obstacles, not by the society nor their surroundings, in order to reach their future plans. These youths came to disagree with the view that media got of the suburbs and instead represented a safety of living in the suburb.