I dedicated my graduation thesis to research of influences on a young person which contribute
to formation of difficulties in social integration.
I first introduce and explain in theory the influence of society as a youngster’s broader
environment. I put key emphases on areas which I estimate to be topical – the influence of
fast changes in society, the problem of employment of young people which is extending
globally, and difficult assimilation of immigrant youth. I intertwine all of the mentioned areas
with developmental tasks and characteristics of adolescence, which is a difficult period as it
is.
From the macrocosm of a youngster I later aim my attention to his/her microcosm, where I
present in great detail family environment, because that is the root of an influence on every
individual. I whish to present the widest palette of influences which the family cell carries
through parental partnership, their relationship with children and views on upbringing,
transmission of behavioral patterns and difficulties which modern families often deal with.
I continue with presentation of another two important factors of childhood and youth –
influences of peers and school. With the latter I whish to present above all the experience of
school for a youngster with difficulties in social integration (which often include emotional
behavioral difficulties) and his/her activity in the school system.
I dedicated the empirical part to three youngsters who gave me through interviews their views
of the world and of themselves in it. I picked out several links to theory and upgraded it with
the comprehension that the key factor of influence on a child, which later in adolescence
indicates the presence and deepening of difficulties in social integration, is not necessarily
violent and hard upbringing. Modern times dictate that the main reason for such behavior
in youth is in more and more cases spoiling and the absence of constructive limitations and
safety.
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