Hur ser samhällsinformationen ut i ungdomslitteraturen? - En studie av svenska samtidsrealistiska ungdomsromaner 1990-1994
The purpose of this study was to examine whether youth novels contained informationconcerning our society. We reviewed youth literature and its history in brief, including itscommencement and development from separate boys' and girls' novels to a common youthnovel after the Second World War.To obtain a clearer picture and a better understanding of youths, we read non-fiction, such asbooks, magazines and articles, concerning youth culture, its meaning and content. We decidedto review the period 1990-1994 more closely. We therefore set up selection criteria whichfinally resulted in 56 youth novels. We examined these novels to determine if and/or how theymatched the nine preselected areas that we felt were typical for the 1990's. We also comparedthe youth novels with the yearbooks on youth publish annually by the government.Our results showed that a type of societal information and/or attitude towards our nine preselectedareas exists in the youth novels. We also found that, in addition to our nine areas, the youthnovels contained 48 other areas, the most common of which was "finding one's own identity".Comparing youth novels and yearbooks, we found that there was a very little accordance betweenthe two. Yearbook articles did not correspond to the content of the youth novels