En ny tid kräver en ny politik
En jämförande studie om ungdomars politiska engagemang i två sociala landskap, Sverige och Grekland.
SociologyKeywords: PoliticsSocial landscapeModernitySociologiNyckelord: politikSociala landskapModernitet
The object of this paper is concerned with the subject youth and politics. The aim of the paper is to study what influence our today modern societies has between two social landscapes, Greece and Sweden and try to give an explanation to why young peoples political engagement is different in the two countries. To fulfil my aim of this paper I have used a few questions, these questions will give me an insight in how young people look at politics, what their interests are and if they feel that they can and ought to act political. The theoretical starting points I?ve used I?ve chosen with reflection to look at the social landscape we live in and its changes over time. I also want to see how it has affected people and the society. Within the framework of two historical processes I study development and trends in these two landscapes.The study is a case study with background from an earlier study about young people?s political awareness and engagement at CEFOS Research centre in Göteborg. Were young people from 28 countries contributed. I have delimit my study to two countries from this research and tried to find out why the results were different in these countries by including perspective of the social landscape in which these young people live their every day life. The analysis is built on 18 interviews, which two of them were group interviews of five people. The results of my interviews matched the theories that I had selected and shows that the changes within the social landscape, also changes the individual apprehension and point of view, not only to the individual but also to the collective influence in society. The results is divergent in the two countries and my conclusion to this is that Sweden has been influenced by modernity for a long period while Greece is going through that process right now and still has a traditional way of thinking.