"Det är bra som det är"
- En studie om hur ungdomar konstruerar kön på en fritidsgård.
The aim of this study was; from a group of boys and girls description and interpretation of interaction with other young people, personnel and the environment of the youth centre illuminate how the social gender are constructed and maintained at the youth centre. In this study we have tried to analyse the phenomena from an intersectionalistic perspective. Except gender, the analytic category social class have been tried to capture. Our theoretical standing point is social constructivism. Institutionalized structures in our society are constructed by humans, gender is not only a biological construction it is also a man created construction. We are ?doing gender?.The young people in our study tend to explain the differences between boys and girls through an essentialistic point of view. For example they explain that boys are more immature and girls are more obedient by cause of nature.The young people also experience that boys and girls are equal at the youth centre. The girls express that they do the same things that boys do in the youth centre. The boys tell it like this; ?It?s nice when girls want to do what we like to do?. At the same time they say that they are not interested in joining the girls in what they like to do. Our comprehension of the young peoples statements are that the youth centres are arenas for boys which girls are allowed to join on the condition that they do what the boys want to do.Keywords: Gender, adolescence, social constructivism, normative femininity, hegemonic masculinity, power relations