Nya seklets ungdom : Vad lever kvar av verklighetssynens ungdom i valrörelsen 2018?

Sammanfattning: Henrik Berggren published a thesis in 1995 in which he presented two definitions of the concept of youth, which he based on studies of Swedish political youth rhetoric during the period 1900 to 1939. He called the definitions youth as a category of political action and the youth of reality. The latter of the two concepts is put forward by the Social Democrats' Youth Union (SSU) during the 1930s and is widely debated in their member body Frihet. The concepts meant that youth were seen as their own social group with their own needs and demands and that it was a group of individuals who were at the forefront of society and pushed the development of the new modern industrialized society by educating and organizing themselves for the good of society. The concepts are used as theoretical frameworks in this study of the political rhetoric in the 2018 election campaign as presented in editorial articles on SSU's media platform Frihet. Through a quantitative text analysis, what remains of the view of youth concepts is examined, and the study shows tendencies that in the 2018 election campaign, youth can still be seen as its own political category of action, but that the image of youth of reality appears to be split.