Sweden: Optimistic individuals open to other needs.

Autor/in	Petterson, Per
Titel	Sweden: Optimistic individuals open to other needs. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Schweden: Optimistische Individuen offen für die Bedürfnisse Anderer.
Quelle	Aus: Ziebertz, Hans-Georg (Hrsg.); Kay, William K. (Hrsg.): Youth in Europe I. An international empirical study about life perspectives. Münster: Lit (2005) S. 120-136Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	International practical theology. 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	3-8258-8718-9
Schlagwörter	Solidarität; Zukunftsorientierung; Lebensperspektive; Jugend; Bürgerbeteiligung; Engagement; Politische Einstellung; Politische Kultur; Wertorientierung; Religion; Religiosität; Jugendkultur; Jugendlicher; Schweden
Abstract	"Swedish adolescents born in the 1980s have been brought up in a society which has promoted the freedom of the individual and voluntarism in almost all social areas. Their parents have experienced a rapid change in the social context during their life time, and were socialised in a historic period when collective values were dominant. What are the values of today's young people in relation to society's micro-, meson- and macro-level, which will dominate the Swedish private and public space in the future? By analysing results of the Swedish sample we have some tentative answers to this question. The results show a predominantly positive perspective on the future held by the adolescents and a strong orientation toward the individual and individual freedom. They have a high degree of seif confidence in their own capability of handling problems that appear, and feel safe and secure even if the future does not develop in the way they imagine. Although the focus on the individual and the individual's freedom is strong, it is not opposed to commitment to one's fellow human beings. These young people care for other people, for society's and Europe's future. Their trust in organisations and institutions at society's meson-level is surprisingly high. When it comes to political issues they are sceptical toward traditional politics in its organised form but prepared to involve themselves in political action within the legal democratic order." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/2